
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.

Relishing "Mná na hÉireann" by Kate Bush for St. Brigid's Day
The enduring traditions of St. Brigid's Day
Imbolc marks the Irish pagan start of spring - something is stirring
Prayers and blessings to honor St. Brigid
The Celtic and Catholic traditions of St. Brigid and her cross
St. Brigid Day is now a bank holiday! Move over, St. Patrick!
National Plan for Vacation Day: Ireland's best places to visit - from natural beauty to a dose of craic!
On This Day: Iconic Irish writer William Butler Yeats died in 1939
Ireland's little-known Mermaid Saint
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- 2 Irish comfort foods to whip up when you need a homestyle treat
- 3 Traditional Irish hearty vegetable soup recipe
- 4 Is there a proper way to drink a pint of Guinness? Or are the rules nonsense
- 5 Baileys Irish Cream and Irish whiskey cocktail recipe
- 6 WATCH: Amazing footage of Dublin’s Four Courts being rebuilt a century ago
- 7 When New York was Irish, in summers long ago
- 8 Old Head Golf Links in Kinsale wins Visit Cork 2024 Green Award
- 9 July 4th recipe for firecracker shrimp
History

WATCH: Irish dance of yesteryear, amazing historic footage
The Irish and Irish American signatories of the Declaration of Independence
175,000 new historical records released by Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland
Irish facts about Independence Day you may not know
WATCH: Remarkable footage from a Magdalene Laundry in the 1940s
Genealogy
