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.
Labor Day is an 'Irish' Holiday too - the national day commemorating America’s workers was an Irishman
Why the Diaspora embraces Ireland and why Ireland should embrace it back
Dublin Airport to celebrate James Joyce’s classic ‘Dubliners’
Independent Irish American candidates running in the 2012 US presidential race
GPA to honor Donald Keough with Ireland-U.S. Gaelic Heritage Awards in New York
Top ten tips on tracing your Irish roots - NY Irish Center’s third session shares a passion for genealogy
My top ten places to visit in Ireland - tourist attractions that everyone on vacation should see
Donegal man uses DNA testing to find out if mystery body is his sibling
Oscar Wilde classic returned to Chicago library 78 years overdue - late fines waived
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
On This Day: JFK was declared winner of the 1960 US presidential election
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
Genealogy