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.
Genetic mapping reveals ancestry between Ireland and Scotland
Top ancient Irish Halloween traditions
Ghost of young girl haunts Dublin’s Shelbourne Hotel, claim guests and staff
On This Day: Irish WWII hero Monsignor Hugh O'Flaherty was born
Muhammad Ali becomes Heavyweight Champion for the second time on this day in 1974
The fascinating history of Ché Guevara’s Irish ancestry
Top gods and goddesses from Celtic mythology
All of Ireland’s Catholic Church records available online
How the Irish came to America, from the Great Hunger to today
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- 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
History
Tea drinking in Ireland was once viewed as "reckless and uncontrollable"
How to celebrate the Summer Solstice the Irish way
On This Day: Irish revolutionary Theobald Wolfe Tone was born in Dublin
How Irish American US General Philip Sheridan paved the way for Juneteenth
The English land agent who inspired the "boycott" in 19th-century Ireland
Genealogy
