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.
Trinity College Dublin's free online course on the lead up to 1916 Easter Rising (VIDEO)
Ireland’s most haunted house filled with spooky tales for Halloween
Social snapshot of Clare in 1800s discovered in tragic workhouse records
"Bloody Irish" 1916 musical on PBS stays away from standard version of Irish history
Would you eat it? A biscuit that survived the Titanic is up for auction
Proof the Irish language is far from dead, from the Aran Islands to Dublin
First Great Hunger grave markers for New York unmarked graves
Blueshirts, Irish pro-fascist party, recalled in sale of rare uniform
Danny Boy! Mets sensation Daniel Murphy is close to his Irish roots
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
