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.
Mexico still lays flowers for the Irish soldiers who turned their guns on America
Churchill sent the Black and Tans into Ireland and handed the rebels their best recruiter
Ireland's tricolour was woven in French silk and flew for just eight days in 1848
This 964-page book weighs 10 pounds and may be the greatest Irish history ever
How Ireland's 1848 rebellion against the British ended in a cabbage patch
The Irish boy name given to ZERO boys last year – but 95 girls
The Irish legend of Tír na nÓg and the warrior who lost 300 years in one moment
Why the Limerick drinking song Garryowen will never be played for the Cheyenne
"The luck of the Irish" was never actually a compliment, and it isn't even Irish
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
WATCH: Rare 1940 film captures Dublin trams, Nelson’s Pillar and a packed Croke Park
JFK's Irish tweed hat from Éamon de Valera heads to auction
Mayo’s starving walked 15 miles for food and were told to wait until lunch was over
Making the dead welcome - All Souls’ Day in Ireland
On This Day: George Bernard Shaw, Dublin wit with a Nobel and an Oscar, dies in 1950
Genealogy
