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.
Newly discovered Irish American who raised the flag at Iwo Jima in World War II
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
This week in history: JFK signs the nuclear test ban treaty in 1963
Most read
- 1 WATCH: Thousands used to flock Tipperary bone-setter's healing hands
- 2 Cornelius Ryan, the Irish D-Day reporter who re-invented journalism
- 3 BBC demands Trump hand over January 6 texts in bid to show he incited riots
- 4 Billionaire Peter Thiel's group takes legal action over axed Powerscourt conference
- 5 The important Irish American news stories that made history
- 6 Have you got one? Rare Irish coin now worth a staggering €15,000
- 7 Odds reveal three favourites for 2026 Rose of Tralee
- 8 250th Anniversary of America: Recognizing the Irish and New Jersey
- 9 Ireland announces €125 million package of bilateral support to Ukraine
History
The AIDS ward, New York 1982, and an amazing Irish American doctor
Famine in an Irish town – how Dingle survived the Great Hunger
250th Anniversary of America: Recognizing the Irish and New Jersey
Cornelius Ryan, the Irish D-Day reporter who re-invented journalism
Wicklow's Military Road, built to capture a rebel captain
Genealogy
