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
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- 1 On This Day: Irish American Bruce Springsteen was "born in the USA"
- 2 Two Irish favorites combine in this delicious apple and Jameson tart recipe
- 3 The top five places to visit in County Tipperary
- 4 On This Day: Celebrated Irish artist Robert Ballagh was born in 1943
- 5 Tracing your Irish ancestry - The Brennan Clan
- 6 On This Day: "Typhoid" Mary Mallon was born in Co Tyrone
- 7 Fall into autumn with this Bramley apple strudel recipe from Bord Bia
- 8 All about the Irish surname O'Hara
- 9 President Michael D. Higgins accuses Israel of leaking his Iran letter