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.
4,000 women from workhouses in Ireland became Australian pioneers
Haunting Irish mugshots from 1850s home in NYC Library
Behind the Name: Siobhan, the name helping the world learn some Irish
Irish man's incredible correspondence from the US Civil War
Edward Bruce, the last High King of Ireland, was killed at Faughart on this day in 1318
Eamon de Valera was born in New York 144 years ago today, as a boy named George
Making Waves: "The Kildoney Men" and one of Ireland's greatest fishing stories
Tracing your Irish ancestors: A three-step guide
Inspiring and funny quotes on what it means to be 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
What does it mean to be Irish in America right now?
Nixon won the White House on this day in 1968 and later trashed the Irish on tape
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
Genealogy
