Accredited Genealogists Ireland (AGI), the sole accrediting body for professional genealogy on the island of Ireland, has ...

A list of the 90 or so "captains" who were Ireland's autonomous royal families around 1515 has recently come to light ...

It also houses one of the world’s richest repositories of Irish ancestry. Guinness has teamed with Ancestry.com to make its treasure chest of Irish family history – a total of 1.6 million ...

The significance of the opening in Ireland is that Cobain had Irish roots himself, having ancestors who emigrated to the United States from Carrickmore, County Tyrone, in 1875. Cobain was even due to ...

While historical tensions have been acknowledged, a shared solidarity and activism highlighted the relationship between ...

Some commentators in the U.S. have construed the alleged Irish link to suggest that the Democrat’s family “owned slaves” – ...

Some interesting information for St. Patrick’s Day and Irish-American Heritage Month (March) from the U.S. Census Bureau. Originally a religious holiday to honor St. Patrick, who introduced ...

The U.S. Census, number-crunchers extraordinaire, sent us these statistics, in honor of St. Patrick’s Day. 36.9 million: Number of U.S. residents who claimed Irish ancestry in 2009. This ...

If Ireland invited every American with Irish ancestry to its St. Patrick's Day celebrations, it would need a lot more Guinness. Approximately 162 million Americans – more than 20 times Ireland ...