Written by: Irish Roots Project Editorial Team
Posted on: June 16, 2026
How to Find Living Relatives in Ireland
Somewhere in Ireland, with reasonable probability, people share your great-grandparents and know things no archive holds — which field, which photographs, which version of the story is true. Finding them is the most human project in genealogy, and the one with the least method written…
Written by: Irish Roots Project Editorial Team
Posted on: June 16, 2026
EPIC and the Irish Family History Centre: A Visitor’s Guide
Dublin keeps its emigration story in a customs vault — fittingly — beneath the old CHQ building in the Docklands, where EPIC The Irish Emigration Museum tells the leaving of Ireland as a world story. Next door sits its quieter, more personal companion: the Irish…
Written by: Irish Roots Project Editorial Team
Posted on: June 16, 2026
Visiting Your Ancestral Townland: What to Expect
The satnav says you have arrived, and there is — a lane, a few fields, a farmhouse or two, perhaps a ruin with an ash tree growing through it. This is the townland: not a destination in any tourist sense, and one of the most…
Written by: Irish Roots Project Editorial Team
Posted on: June 16, 2026
How to Plan a Heritage Trip to Ireland
There is travel, and there is the other thing — standing in a churchyard reading your own surname off lichened stone, or turning up a lane your great-grandmother walked out of and never walked back. A heritage trip to Ireland is the second thing, and…