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.
Five things you didn’t know about your Armagh ancestors
Did your Irish ancestor receive a military pension?
The top Irish engagement rings (PHOTOS)
5,000-year-old Newgrange to be X-rayed to determine origin
The Flying Boats of Foynes – an era of very different air travel
Walt Disney asked to meet Éamon de Valera while researching leprechauns
Padraig Pearse as cross-dresser in controversial Easter Rising comedy
Canada announces $5 million in funding for Grosse Île, famine-era Ellis Island
The Green Redcoats: The story of the Kilmainham Pensioners
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