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.
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
This week in history: JFK signs the nuclear test ban treaty in 1963
Melissa McCarthy channels her Irish roots in ‘The Kitchen’
Irish baby names become top choice in Hollywood
Most read
- 1 What does "amadán" mean?
- 2 The Dublin spots featured in James Joyce's "Ulysses"
- 3 All about the Irish surname O'Hara
- 4 The top five tourist attractions in County Meath
- 5 How this North American couple discovered their ancestors on their Irish honeymoon
- 6 The top twenty books every Irish American should read
- 7 Tracing your Irish ancestry - The Joyce clan
- 8 How James Joyce came to be revered in Trieste, Italy
- 9 Top "Father Ted" filming locations in Ireland
History
Paparazzi hounded James Joyce after his late marriage to Nora Barnacle
How James Joyce came to be revered in Trieste, Italy
Tracing your Irish ancestry - The Joyce clan
Profiles in Pride: Declan Flynn, a death that changed Ireland
Michael Malloy - the Irishman in The Bronx that could not be murdered
Genealogy