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 Rejected by Ireland and misunderstood by America, one Irish American tells his story
- 2 One Irish surname may be the earliest ever recorded in all of Europe
- 3 The day an Irish brother saved a stranger and lost his sister to 9/11
- 4 “Who speaks properly?” Belfast toddler puts her parents' accents to the test
- 5 On This Day: War criminal Oliver Cromwell’s Massacre of Drogheda in 1649
- 6 Wild wallabies wander this deserted Irish island
- 7 Explore ten Irish potato recipes that have defined comfort cooking for centuries
- 8 Ireland’s most-visited heritage sites in 2023, from castles to monuments to gardens
- 9 Five Irish memorials honor the victims and heroes lost on September 11
History
On This Day: John Barry, the Irish "Father of the American Navy," dies in 1803
Expert Irish genealogy group publishes new guide to Irish Civil Registration
What does it mean to be Irish in America right now?
On This Day: JFK defended his Catholic faith to the Greater Houston Ministerial Association
How Jack B Yeats' “Liffey Swim” won an Olympic medal in 1924
Genealogy
