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.
Sleepwalker by John Toomey
Going Blind by Mara Faulkner
Pioneers: The Frontier Family of Barack Obama by Stephen MacDonogh
In Search of the Craic: One Man’s Pub Crawl Through Irish Music by Colin Irwin
Test with video
Waking St. Patrick to awaken the spring
Why 'Danny Boy' should be banned on St. Patrick's Day
The Irish Homecoming: Irish brides and grooms are getting more creative when it comes to weddings
Call for London to acknowledge Irish famine with fitting memorial there
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
Armistice Day: Irish World War I soldier describes his experiences
On this Day: Bram Stoker, the Irish author of "Dracula," was born in 1847
On This Day: IRA bomb kills 12 at Enniskillen Remembrance Day service in 1987
Why the Irish no longer mark Remembrance Day
On this day in 1990, the Clancy Brothers lost Tom and Irish music lost a giant
Genealogy
