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.
Peter O'Connor climbed an Olympic flagpole for Ireland 120 years ago
The Irish baby names that are set for revival in 2027
"Danny Boy" is Ireland's most famous ballad but an English lawyer wrote the words
The ancient Irish alphabet read from the bottom up and still carved into stone
Why Queen Victoria became known as the Famine Queen and never shook the name
The forgotten 1925 famine that Ireland's new government denied was happening
Son's name celebrates "Irish heritage" - Mum can’t pronounce
Bronx man adopted from Dublin at birth finds his Irish family after 63 years
The apostrophe in Irish names tells a story technology is erasing
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
