Editor’s Note: Sign up for Unlocking the World, CNN Travel’s weekly newsletter. Get the latest news in aviation, food and drink, where to stay and other travel developments. John Portmann, a professor ...

Pat Sydlo-Arshan spent decades wondering about her Irish heritage, carrying fragments of family stories and newspaper clippings about relatives she'd never meet. At 73, she finally walked through the ...

Cheryl Fergison has developed a deep affection for Ireland while filming in the Emerald Isle, so much so that she’s happily claimed Irishness for herself, even if the DNA results didn’t cooperate. ‘I ...

Jim McGlynn, of Letterkenny in Donegal, is looking to acquire a DNA test for an unidentified body buried in a local graveyard that he believes is his brother. The Irish Sun reports that McGlynn’s ...

(CNN) — John Portmann, a professor of religious studies at the University of Virginia, was born as Thomas James Delehanty – a fact he didn’t know until a few years ago. He also didn’t know his ...

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