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.
How Féile Na Marbh or 'Feast of the Dead' became Halloween
Ghosts, fairies, goblins - Irish old timers share Halloween memories
The top baby names in Ireland every year over the last three decades
Irish proverbs to live by, 26 nuggets of wisdom
Where did the phrase "Forty Shades of Green" for Ireland come from?
The infamous murder of an Irish beauty, Colleen Bawn
How to do a tree planting unity ritual at your Irish ceremony
Holidays the Irish gave the world - from Halloween to Groundhog Day
Fast facts and figures about Irish America today
Most read
- 1 Celtic Thunder returns to New York this Saturday with "ODYSSEY"
- 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
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