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.
American college students make a 3D scan of an Irish castle
IrishCentral’s Halloween series - the sinister scoundrels of Samhain
Beautiful tribute to 1,100 Spanish Armada sailors who drowned off the Sligo coast
Patrick Pearse's letter of surrender to be shown publicly at Dublin's GPO
After 149 years, justice for an Irish immigrant executed for murder
Ancestral link discovered between Donald Trump and Oliver Cromwell
Court martial records of 1916 leaders now available to view online
50 Irish railroad workers lie buried in a mass grave in Illinois
“Supported by her exiled children in America” - John Devoy and Irish America in 1916
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
