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IrishCentral.comby Kayla Hertz12d ago
On the morning of April 12, 1928, Colonel James Fitzmaurice lifted off from Baldonnel Aerodrome in a German aircraft called the Bremen, bound for a coastline nobody had yet reached by air from this...
IrishCentral.comby Frederick Wertz12d ago
Anyone who has tried to trace an Irish ancestor eventually runs into the same wall, the catastrophic 1922 blaze at the Public Record Office that reduced centuries of civil and census material to...
IrishCentral.comby IrishCentral Staff12d ago
Conan O’Brien is 100% Irish, and he’s got the DNA test to prove it. In a 2019 appearance on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, O’Brien recalled how he recently took a DNA test, and the results...
IrishCentral.comby Michelle K. Smith12d ago
The Brennans trace their line back to Braonan, son of Cearbhall, a Viking king of Dublin who settled the lands north of Kilkenny and whose descendants ruled there until the Normans arrived in the...
IrishCentral.comby IrishCentral Staff13d ago
The chalice that stood on the altar during one of the most poignant weddings in Irish history has returned to the prison where it was used.
IrishCentral.comby Louise Porter13d ago
As parents, many of us will notice that our names aren’t as popular anymore; they may even be going extinct. It’s not really the nicest feeling, if not completely surprising.
IrishCentral.comby IrishCentral Staff13d ago
Irish diaspora who know the name of the townland their family left, but not much else about it, have a new free place to start looking.
IrishCentral.comby Oisin Feeney13d ago
On the afternoon of Sunday, September 25, 1983, a code word shouted across H Block 7 at the Maze in Lisburn set off a 90 second countdown that left 21 prison officers overpowered and the wing...
IrishCentral.comby Cahir O'Doherty13d ago
This Friday marks 109 years since Thomas Ashe, a schoolteacher from the Co Kerry Gaeltacht, a Gaelic League member and a founding member of the Irish Volunteers, died at the hands of the state he...
IrishCentral.comby IrishCentral Staff13d ago
Paul McCartney's music needs no introduction, but the Irish thread running through his family story is far less familiar.
IrishCentral.comby Meghan Sweeney13d ago
Paul McCartney is the most commercially successful songwriter in music history, yet the Irish thread running through his family story is far less familiar than the hits.
IrishCentral.comby IrishCentral Staff13d ago
Millions of people, including a striking share of Irish Americans in New York, may carry the genetic signature of Niall of the Nine Hostages, the most prolific warrior in Irish history.
IrishCentral.comby Chef Michael Gillian13d ago
The leaves are changing, there's a nip in the air, the nights are getting longer... with all that said it's also a time to get back to baking and treat yourself!
IrishCentral.comby Orla Ní Riain14d ago
Evan Deveney was drinking a coffee at his boarding gate in Nashville International Airport, waiting for a flight to Montana, when five armed men in black walked towards him and put him in handcuffs...
IrishCentral.comby IrishCentral Staff14d ago
Killary Fjord, the 16km stretch of water that cuts inland through the heart of Connemara, has been named one of the 25 most inspiring travel experiences in the world for the year ahead.
IrishCentral.comby In Partnership With:14d ago
Gearóid Mcdaid, known across the surfing world as G-Man, was raised a short drive from Mullaghmore, the County Sligo reef that throws up some of the heaviest waves in Europe.
IrishCentral.comby In partnership with:14d ago
Ireland's first modern later living community is taking shape in Killenard, Co. Laois, with 37 residents already settled in.
IrishCentral.comby IrishCentral Staff14d ago
Britain's royal family has an Irish ancestor few would expect, as research shows Queen Elizabeth II and her son King Charles III are both descended from Brian Boru, the High King who ruled Ireland...
IrishCentral.comby Niall O'Dowd14d ago
Eavan Boland died at her Dublin home in April 2020, but the poem she left behind about the men and women who sailed out of Ireland with little more than cardboard cases and old songs has only grown...
IrishCentral.comby Michelle K. Smith14d ago
Every McCabe in the world today owes their surname to a piece of headgear. The family arrived in Ireland from Scotland in the 14th century as hired fighting men for the O'Reilly and O'Rourke clans...
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