Roots
IrishCentral’s repository of everything to do with your Irish roots – from Irish history, your ancestors, your Irish name, to ancient myth, legend and folklore.
Honor your Irish Ancestor and bring their name back home to Ireland
The last Magdalene Laundry in Ireland closed its doors in 1996
Irishman sent to Australia as child reunited with family he was told were dead
Ireland to open first official National Famine Museum in Roscommon
Honoring how America helped the survival of the Irish language
On This Day: President de Valera becomes honorary Native American chieftain
Who Do You Think You Are? - this season's biggest revelations
The mystery of 1916 leader and New Yorker Éamon de Valera’s birth
This week in history: JFK signs the nuclear test ban treaty in 1963
Most read
- 1 Irish comfort foods to whip up when you need a homestyle treat
- 2 Traditional Irish hearty vegetable soup recipe
- 3 Is there a proper way to drink a pint of Guinness? Or are the rules nonsense
- 4 Baileys Irish Cream and Irish whiskey cocktail recipe
- 5 WATCH: Amazing footage of Dublin’s Four Courts being rebuilt a century ago
- 6 When New York was Irish, in summers long ago
- 7 Old Head Golf Links in Kinsale wins Visit Cork 2024 Green Award
- 8 July 4th recipe for firecracker shrimp
- 9 Cork suspected cocaine seizure is Ireland's biggest drug bust of the year
History
WATCH: Meet Ireland’s last cycling postman in this 1975 interview
Irish Legend: The Song of Fionuala of the Children of Lir
WATCH: Dublin's nightclub scene and go-go dancing in 1970 Ireland
The sad decline of traditional Gaeltacht practices
On This Day: Edward Flanagan, the Irish founder of Boys Town, was born
Genealogy
