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.
“Nuns took my childhood”: This Irish woman escaped from a Magdalene Laundry as a teen in 1993
Who’s got more Irish DNA - You or your brother or sister?
How Michael Collins’ Dublin fishmonger helped beat the British
Toronto Irish seek to honor victims of the famine with a new cultural center
On his birthday, remembering JFK's last birthday party
Five ways JFK was a visionary leader remarkably ahead of his time
What is the law on abortion in Northern Ireland?
Home to Vote: Emotive documentary shares real life stories of why women are voting to #RepealThe8th
Montreal’s annual march to commemorate 6,000 victims of the Great Famine
Most read
- 1 CIE Tours reveal huge Ireland sale! Save on ALL guided vacations for 2026 travel
- 2 On This Day: Irish American Bruce Springsteen was "born in the USA"
- 3 Two Irish favorites combine in this delicious apple and Jameson tart recipe
- 4 The top five places to visit in County Tipperary
- 5 On This Day: Celebrated Irish artist Robert Ballagh was born in 1943
- 6 Tracing your Irish ancestry - The Brennan Clan
- 7 On This Day: "Typhoid" Mary Mallon was born in Co Tyrone
- 8 Fall into autumn with this Bramley apple strudel recipe from Bord Bia
- 9 All about the Irish surname O'Hara
History
Tea drinking in Ireland was once viewed as "reckless and uncontrollable"
How to celebrate the Summer Solstice the Irish way
On This Day: Irish revolutionary Theobald Wolfe Tone was born in Dublin
How Irish American US General Philip Sheridan paved the way for Juneteenth
The English land agent who inspired the "boycott" in 19th-century Ireland
Genealogy
