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.
Reactions to an American in Ireland – the good, the bad, and the ugly
Why is being Irish so cool - Internationally loved and admired
Ireland's love of music discovered - from buskers on the street to Guinness Jazz Festival
Finding my great great grandfather’s home after 170 years
A fairytale Irish ball - a dream come true for our American student in Cork
My wedding plans with boyfriend go viral - TV and media jump on my whirlwind romance
A Merry Christmas in Cork and saying goodbye to my new home in Ireland
Finding a long lost relative in the 1901 Irish census
Ireland, a love story - Why Dublin won my heart over New York City
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
Why the Irish no longer mark Remembrance Day
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
Genealogy
