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.
Timberlake gets his Irish up on Saturday Night Live
What Irish step dancing means to me
The world remembers sufferers of the Great Irish Famine
How 'Riverdance' changed Tokyo man's life
How my Irish grandfather was hidden at Ellis Island
County Clare’s historic library database dating back to early 18th century goes online
The strange tale of the Irish Hitlers - the connection between Bridget Hitler and the Nazi leader
New photos of New York island where Irishwoman ‘Typhoid Mary’ was forced to live
All in the Flatley Family
Most read
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- 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
More than 30,000 Irish soldiers lost in World War I named in online archive
Armistice Day: Irish World War I soldier describes his experiences
On This Day: IRA bomb kills 12 at Enniskillen Remembrance Day service in 1987
On this Day: Bram Stoker, the Irish author of "Dracula," was born in 1847
Genealogy