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.
Irish funeral toasts, blessings, and prayers for the dead
WATCH: 1960s short film follows adventures of group of boys in Ireland
3,000-year-old baby skeleton discovered at the Irish birthplace of Halloween
The Irish American clock maker who invented the tattoo machine
The wonderfully strange history behind the Irish saying “chancing your arm”
How the Irish invented the phrase “so long”
Clocks go back in Ireland - but what about the Irish cows?
Celebrate National Tell a Story Day with IrishCentral Storytellers
Is this Witch’s Yew Ireland’s most haunted tree?
Most read
- 1 Come home to the West: Discover Ireland differently on Limerick Greenway
- 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
Ireland’s Titanic: The tragic sinking of the RMS Leinster in 1918
On This Day: The Irish Crown Jewels disappear from Dublin Castle in 1907
WATCH: An incredible tram ride through 1901 Belfast
WATCH: Irish dance of yesteryear, amazing historic footage
The Irish and Irish American signatories of the Declaration of Independence
Genealogy
