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.
A look at books: From Irish food to Irishmen who fought with the British in 1916
Why Ronald Reagan’s attempted assassin should never be released
Menu from Titanic’s sumptuous last lunch auctions for $88,000
Truth revealed about Irish relic of cross on which Jesus was crucified (VIDEO)
How Irish surnames came to be - what’s the story behind yours?
Raise a pint of Guinness to St. James on his feast day
Doctors, lawyers, teachers also died in Famine workhouses
The Irish goodbye becomes famous
Famous explorer to unveil plaque honoring historic 1976 re-enactment of St. Brendan's voyage
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