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.
Michael Collins was a great lover as well as a fearsome fighter
Italian boxers took Irish names to deter discrimination
Too few Americans visit our war dead: Remembering US involvement in WWI
Adopted siblings travel to Ireland to sadly discover their mothers have passed away
How speaking Irish saved my life on the run from United Arab Emirates police
Who are the main Irish celebrities supporting the Presidential candidates?
Northern Irish family believed to be the oldest in the world
How a 104-year-old telegraph machine was recovered from the Lusitania shipwreck
A look at Ireland long ago, at the turn of the 20th century (VIDEOS)
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