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.
Using social histories and directories for your Irish family tree
The fascinating history of Ireland's Guinness family
Time for Irish to stop calling Irish-Americans Plastic Paddies
Historic personal treasures from 1916 Rising go up for auction (PHOTOS)
Say farewell to Irish cops in NYPD says former top detective
14 archive movies chart the events of Easter Week 1966, 50 years after the Rising
Five things you didn’t know about your Wexford ancestors
Discover your Irish ancestors in The Illustrated Police News
Help restore this pre-famine house in Ireland (PHOTOS)
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
