Roots
IrishCentral’s repository of everything to do with your Irish roots – from Irish history, your ancestors, your Irish name, to ancient myth, legend and folklore.
An Irishwoman was blamed for starting the Great Chicago Fire
An American journalist reports from Ireland during the Famine
How an Irish doctor survived WWII, captivity and the Atomic Bomb
Heartbreaking artwork depicting Great Hunger coffin ships now on display
I took my 80-year-old mother to Ireland to see the castles our ancestors built
I visited Ireland for the first time in 1957, when I was nine-years old (PHOTOS)
Where ten of the most famous Irish people are buried (PHOTOS)
What song did John F Kennedy ask Judy Garland to sing to him on the phone?
My great-aunt, the bootlegging Irish nun in Prohibition America
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- 1 Why Queen Victoria became known as the Famine Queen and never shook the name (76 characters)
- 2 What to do when you touch down in Ireland
- 3 Bronx man adopted from Dublin at birth finds his Irish family after 63 years
- 4 Arthur Guinness was a servant who turned £100 into the world's most famous stout
- 5 Leonard Cohen's haunting take on Kevin Barry still stops Irish listeners cold
- 6 The apostrophe in Irish names tells a story technology is erasing
- 7 Where are you from? Find out using these Irish surname maps
- 8 What does it mean to be Irish in America right now?
- 9 The forgotten 1925 famine that Ireland's new government denied was happening
History
On this day in 1990, the Clancy Brothers lost Tom and Irish music lost a giant
On this day in 1990, Mary Robinson became the first woman elected president of Ireland
Ireland’s answer to the Bayeux Tapestry is just an hour from London
LISTEN: "Making Empire" and the Irish with historian Jane Ohlmeyer
Ireland has over 300 saints and these are the holy sites they left behind
Genealogy
