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.
The surprising reason JFK Jr found himself at a funeral in County Laois
New Irish stamps celebrate women leading in healthcare
The Irish American who invented green beer for St. Patrick's Day
Ireland's most common surnames (and their meanings!) for babies born in 2025
Before Anna Wintour, the fashion industry was ruled by a Dublin woman
On This Day: Nelson’s Pillar in Dublin was blown up in 1966
St. Patrick was never canonized a saint by the Catholic Church
International Women's Day - The inspiring lives of some of Ireland's fiercest females
How my Cork grandmother cheated death during the sinking of the Lusitania
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
What does it mean to be Irish in America right now?
Nixon won the White House on this day in 1968 and later trashed the Irish on tape
WATCH: Rare 1940 film captures Dublin trams, Nelson’s Pillar and a packed Croke Park
JFK's Irish tweed hat from Éamon de Valera heads to auction
Mayo’s starving walked 15 miles for food and were told to wait until lunch was over
Genealogy
