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.
Irish-born cowboys were the fastest guns in the west once upon a time
Archaeologists search Montreal construction site for mass grave of Irish famine victims
LISTEN: The Great Famine podcast series – the Irish rebel Anne Devlin
Bid to end discrimination against Irish surnames with apostrophes by O'Leary family
Uncovering your Irish ancestor’s secrets online
CIA director John McCone covered up JFK assassination truth
An Irish cop arrested Lee Harvey Oswald a year before JFK’s assassination
There would have been no 1920s Bloody Sunday without Michael Collins’ Temple Bar office
Watch as the IrishCentral staff find out how Irish we are with DNA test results!
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
The ancient Irish alphabet read from the bottom up and still carved into stone
Arabella Kennedy was stillborn 70 years ago and her grave reads simply daughter
Why experts still cannot agree on whether human remains lie inside the Titanic
Declassified FBI files allege Lord Mountbatten preyed on young boys
The Irish teenager who doubled for Michael Collins and became a Hollywood star
Genealogy
