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.
Dracula, the banshee and the jack-o’-lantern all began as Irish nightmares
Halloween began in Ireland and these old Samhain traditions prove it
WATCH: Ireland's former state pathologist investigates the country's last witch trial
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Willie the Wisp, the banshee and the Halloween Wexford still remembers
From "Dracula" to killer leprechauns, the Irish horror films to watch this Halloween
WATCH: Michael Collins documentary 'The Young Fella'
From a stabbed jester to whispering mummies, Ireland’s most haunted spots to visit
The bonfires and black cats the Irish used to keep the fairies away on Samhain
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- 3 Bronx man adopted from Dublin at birth finds his Irish family after 63 years
- 4 Arthur Guinness was a servant who turned £100 into the world's most famous stout
- 5 Leonard Cohen's haunting take on Kevin Barry still stops Irish listeners cold
- 6 The apostrophe in Irish names tells a story technology is erasing
- 7 Where are you from? Find out using these Irish surname maps
- 8 What does it mean to be Irish in America right now?
- 9 The forgotten 1925 famine that Ireland's new government denied was happening
History
WATCH: Rare 1940 film captures Dublin trams, Nelson’s Pillar and a packed Croke Park
JFK's Irish tweed hat from Éamon de Valera heads to auction
Mayo’s starving walked 15 miles for food and were told to wait until lunch was over
Making the dead welcome - All Souls’ Day in Ireland
On This Day: George Bernard Shaw, Dublin wit with a Nobel and an Oscar, dies in 1950
Genealogy
