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.
The celeb-approved Irish baby name trend that is ideal for sentimental parents
Tom Cruise's Irish roots run deeper than almost anyone in Hollywood
Flann O'Brien was born 115 years ago and his wit is as sharp as ever
On This Day: Frank Patterson, the Tipperary tenor who sang for the Pope and for Pyongyang
German U-boat landed 28 rescued sailors in Kerry and Britain doubted Irish neutrality
This Irish baby name has skyrocketed in popularity in the UK
The Belfast rebel poet who first called Ireland the Emerald Isle
Why JFK's Tyrone-born driver is still blamed for the President's death
She was 16 and armed to the teeth, the Cork rebel girl who faced down the Black and Tans
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
