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.
What is the real meaning of Saint Patrick’s Day?
The real reason why there aren't any snakes in Ireland
Everything you need to know about Seachtain na Gaeilge 2025
All the pubs in Ireland used to be closed on St. Patrick’s Day
St. Patrick’s Breastplate: the prayer of Ireland's patron saint
These were the most popular names for babies born in Ireland last year
On This Day: John Holland, who designed the first submarine, is born in 1841
In Irish tradition, a Leap Year means the ladies get to propose!
Kildare village 'twinning' with Bruce Springsteen's New Jersey hometown
Most read
- 1 Irish comfort foods to whip up when you need a homestyle treat
- 2 Traditional Irish hearty vegetable soup recipe
- 3 Is there a proper way to drink a pint of Guinness? Or are the rules nonsense
- 4 Baileys Irish Cream and Irish whiskey cocktail recipe
- 5 WATCH: Amazing footage of Dublin’s Four Courts being rebuilt a century ago
- 6 When New York was Irish, in summers long ago
- 7 Old Head Golf Links in Kinsale wins Visit Cork 2024 Green Award
- 8 July 4th recipe for firecracker shrimp
- 9 Cork suspected cocaine seizure is Ireland's biggest drug bust of the year
History
On This Day: Frederick Douglass's powerful Cork speech denouncing racism was published in the Cork Examiner
Halloween in Ireland and its origins in the Celtic festival Samhain
LISTEN: Ireland’s greatest storyteller has the best spooky Halloween stories
Kinsale's Lady in White haunts Charles Fort
Search is on for people born in Ireland before the 1926 Census
Genealogy
