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.
Our Anne
A Year on Croagh Patrick
Kennedy family gathered in Washington to celebrate 50th anniversary of JFK’s inauguration
Moments in Irish Life
Proud Mary
Micky Ward: "The Fighter"
Young Irish Writers Part 1: Kevin Barry
Young Irish Writers Part 2: Claire Kilroy
Young Irish Writers Part 3: Paul Murray
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
Bram Stoker's own family history was darker than anything in "Dracula"
A Kerry monk may have reached America 1,000 years before Columbus set sail
A Galway man sailed with Columbus in 1492 and Irish history almost forgot him
Halloween belongs to the Pooka, the shape shifting trickster of Irish folklore
Brendan Bowyer was born 88 years ago today and the Beatles once opened for him
Genealogy
