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.
The top baby names in Ireland every year over the last three decades
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
These Halloween traditions all have Irish origins
WATCH: Irish school children explain Ireland's famous superstitions and folklore
The myths and legends of the Giant’s Causeway
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: Monsignor Hugh O'Flaherty, the Irish priest who saved thousands during WWII, died in 1963
Exploring the truth and reality on Irish Famine coffin ships
The origins of anti-Irish jokes and how they impacted Irish worldwide
Stand with Irish stories and sustain independent journalism
On This Day: Irish-born Captain John Lonergan awarded the Medal of Honor in 1893
Genealogy
