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.
British Labour Leader to erect plaque to 1916 heroine Countess Markievicz
National Famine Commemoration held in Northern Ireland for the first time
“Scandal” as Westmeath Bronze Age oak road mulched for compost
Rare examples of Irish American coins in the 1700s - 1800s (PHOTOS)
Cabin where adventurer Ernest Shackleton died donated to Kildare
A look inside Ireland’s historical newspapers – The Sligo Champion
Over 700 items are up for auction from the Guinness family’s house in Co. Kildare
Detailed images of WWII shipwrecks in the Irish sea reveal new info (PHOTOS)
Guinness’ clock housed by Irish gov that plays “God Save the Queen” fetches $129k
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
