The surnames Smyth, D'Arcy, and even Disney all have Irish roots! Many people think that they can identify an Irish last name simply by an "O'" or a "Mc" at the start of it. While that may sometimes ...

IrishCentral has put together a list of the top 100 common Irish surnames. iStock IrishCentral has put together a list of the top 100 common Irish surnames with a little explanation of where these ...

There are hundreds of unclaimed estates in the UK under Irish names A database of unclaimed estates, Unclaimedestates.ie, ...

Happy St. Patrick’s Day, hockey fans. The Irish have a long history of producing excellent hockey players west of the Atlantic. Kennedys, Fitz-somethings, O’Reillys, O’Donnells, O’Connells, ...

LONDON (AP) — A chain of holiday parks in Britain kept an “undesirable guests” list of Irish surnames in an attempt to keep out members of the Irish Traveller community, the U.K. equalities watchdog ...

Everybody's Irish on St. Patrick's Day, but some lucky leprechauns are Irish the rest of the year, too! Can you identify an Irish man or woman by last name only? If their surname begins with O’, Mc’ ...

Names tell the story of a place — what’s important to a culture, what history it chooses to commemorate. In Ireland, names are especially political, reflecting centuries-old tensions between the ...