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.
Who were the druids? The magical people of ancient Ireland
The Guinness family’s influence on Dublin extends far beyond pints of stout
These English words all have Irish roots
Seeing Ireland through my father's vintage Kodachrome images
Irish surnames as baby first names? Really!
Welcoming the autumnal equinox at one of Ireland’s most magical ancient sites
Tracing your Irish ancestry - The O'Reilly Clan
Behind the Name: Sinead, an Irish name deserving of a return to the spotlight
Sligo's Michael Corcoran refused the Prince of Wales and impressed Lincoln instead
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
