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.
JFK visited Ireland for the first time 70 years ago today
2015 Irish Great Hunger commemorations to be held in Newry
Historic film footage gems offer a glimpse into “The Heart of Erin” (VIDEOS)
Milwaukee Irish Fest - An Irish celebration like never before
Did Michael Collins betray Roger Casement's gay diaries to British?
A snapshot of Ireland's first ever National Army, 1922
Irish in 19th century Britain were three times more likely to be accused as criminals
Eyewitness account of survivors of Flight 923 emerge on the Wild Atlantic Way
First official Easter 1916 event held for O’Donovan Rossa funeral
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
