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.
Remains of shipwrecked Irish famine victims found in Canada
Amazing life of 1930s Irish NYPD cop “Dead Shot” Mary headed to Off-Broadway
DNA testing reveals the average British person is one-fifth Irish
Henrietta Street tenements and the Little Museum of Dublin (VIDEOS)
Still contempt in some Irish quarters for American cousins
Medieval Irish merchants traded in slaves in Tunisia and Iceland
How Original Sin, according to Catholic Church, tore my family apart
Landmark new research into Great Hunger dead reveals victims' tragic tales
From a cramped Morris Minor in Longford to the cold winters in Tasmania
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
