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.
Top ten Irish Christmas traditions - old fashioned and modern Ireland combined
Top gods and goddesses from Celtic mythology
Ireland’s ancient martial art of stick fighting is making a comeback
Top ten Irish-American politicans
Did Irish monks build these ancient stone structures in Connecticut?
The Irish visionary James Hoban behind the White House died on this day
Unlock the secrets of ancient Irish magic
A schoolchild of the 1950s in Ireland looks back
Irish myths and legends at Ballycastle, Co Antrim
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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