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.
Eyewitness account of a Great Famine workhouse on Christmas Day 1847
My ancestors as they were on the night of March 31st 1901
The Patrick Kavanagh poem that invokes Irish Christmas nostalgia
Ever wonder how many places in Ireland are called "bally"?
Lunar eclipse was welcomed by Celts in ancient times
New TG4 doc explores book banned 100 years ago for being "too dangerous"
This Christmas as you decorate your tree consider planting your Irish roots in Ireland
Tales of ancient Irish heroes more accessible in online database
50 tragic portraits of Irish Famine victims in the poorhouses of New York
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
What does it mean to be Irish in America right now?
Nixon won the White House on this day in 1968 and later trashed the Irish on tape
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
Genealogy
