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 Irish woman who worked as a nanny for Confederate leader Jefferson Davis
Trinity launch conference and online course for 1916 Rising centenary (PHOTOS & VIDEO)
From Galway Bay to Taxi-ing down the Thames... Irishmen in the Waterman Records
Tracing your Irish roots: The quagmire of administrative districts - part 2
What are the most egotistical Irish names?
Letters of the seven signatories of the 1916 Proclamation released online (PHOTOS)
In the US, Irish baby boy names more popular than Irish girl names for 2015
New York historic collection of Irish cigarette pack cards celebrates Irish towns (PHOTOS)
Lost in a new world: The Irish in Victoria’s mental health institutions
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
