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.
On this day: Nobel Prize winner Samuel Beckett dies in 1989
Magic of Newgrange at winter solstice never fails to astound
The classic Irish name that’s growing in popularity in the UK
An Irish father's sense of loss at Christmas as he misses emigrant sons
The eight sacred Celtic holidays of the year
Christmas morning in Ireland: Memories from decades gone by
Before Anna Wintour, the fashion industry was ruled by a Dublin woman
Telling ancient Ireland's tales: Irish are the stories they tell
WATCH: These old Irish Christmas adverts will bring a tear to your eye
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- 2 Traditional Irish hearty vegetable soup recipe
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- 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
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On This Day: Irish-born Captain John Lonergan awarded the Medal of Honor in 1893
Ancient Irish myths that invoke the spirit of Samhain
Margaret Thatcher described Francis Bacon's art as "dreadful pictures"
How Féile Na Marbh or 'Feast of the Dead' became Halloween
Genealogy
