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.
From Dublin drunk to Burmese monk - the Irishman who became the first western Buddhist monk
Irish myths and legends - the giant and the baby
WATCH: Irish school children explain Ireland's famous superstitions and folklore
Good and bad luck signs from Irish folklore
Ireland’s Hound of the Deep - the Irish mythical monster Dobhar Chú
AGI reveals hidden treasures in Irish census records beyond family names
A mythological Irish baby name is becoming popular with new parents
Ireland's top Christmas traditions that make the season
How many Dublins are there in America?
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- 3 An Irish twist on a winning comfort food - bangers and mash
- 4 Traditional Irish recipes for a taste of home
- 5 On This Day: The fiercest blizzard of the 'Big Snow' of 1947 hit Ireland
- 6 Symbol of Ireland: the Irish harp's sweet music and myth
- 7 How the heroic Irish won the American Revolution
- 8 Why Ireland should be your must-visit food destination in 2026
- 9 The Irishman who discovered South Pass and the Oregon Trail
History
Mayo's Addergoole 14 - the tragic tale of one parish's Titanic victims
50 facts about Ireland's 1916 Easter Rising
Irish man Eugene Daly's eyewitness account of the sinking of the Titanic
Fascinated by the 1916 Easter Rising? Check out these Dublin rebel museums
Faces of the Titanic: Ellen Toomey, the third class domestic servant who survived
Genealogy
