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.
Arthur Guinness was born 301 years ago and his 9,000 year lease runs on
Find out the meaning behind your Irish surname - Part I
A top 5 Irish name from 35 years ago is losing popularity fast
Murphy leads Ireland's ten most common surnames and the meanings behind them
Meet the O'Haras, the Sligo clan that gave us cardinals, novelists and screen legends
A new free site maps all 151,307 records in Ireland's national monuments inventory
This forgotten Irish girl’s name meaning "strength" is on the rise again
WATCH: Conan O’Brien’s DNA test says he’s 100% Irish, stuns his doctor
Remembering James Fitzmaurice, the Dubliner who first flew the Atlantic east to west
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
