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.
Wise men's gifts of gold, frankincense, and myrrh - Jesus was a wealthy child at Christmas
Archaeologists uncover mystery fairies and a buried pagan cross
130 years of Irish life summed up in photos
Mad Dog Coll: the baby faced, blond Irish mobster
Famine Memorial Day bill introduced by Irish lawmakers
Ireland's Allies: America and the 1916 Easter Rising
7 celebrities you didn’t know had Irish roots
Family of 1916 British soldier has returned piece of Irish flag to Ireland
Seamus Heaney manuscript, 1922 Proclamation, Irish treasures for auction in Dublin
Most read
- 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
