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.
New website site uses DNA, surnames and place names to trace ancestry back thousands of years
New High King to be crowned at Tara in lavish spectacle
Cu Chulainn gets Hollywood style superhero makeover in new book
Northern Ireland could discover its own “little Pompeii” in buried 17th century town
In Focus: Megan Smolenyak - Genealogist
Giant statue of St. Patrick to be moved elsewhere in response to ‘hateful opposition’ - VIDEO
Luka Bloom, Martin Hayes, and John Spillane among lineup for Doolin Folk Festival
Emigrant Flame monument sparks to life in Wexford ahead of JFK 50 anniversary event
It’s a long way to Sruffaunoughterluggatoora - the seriously strange and wonderful long place names in Ireland
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
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
