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.
New York City's own Brexit - Evacuation Day celebrations of 1783
Ireland should have a national day of commemoration for the Great Hunger
How my Irish family inspired me to grow in life and business
150th anniversary of cable connecting Irish island to America celebrated
Canadian refuge for Irish famine emigrants explores link with Wicklow town
Ireland’s storms unearths 6,000 year old dwellings near Galway
Top ten annoying things about Irish men
Did Michael Collins order British general killing after Treaty?
Ancient logboat discovered on the banks of the River Boyne “very rare”
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
