
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.

Exploring "Irish Grief: Traditions, Myths, and Mourning Practices” this Halloween
The USA doesn’t dip its flag at the Olympics thanks to this Irish American
The truth behind Ireland’s healers - the seventh sons of seventh sons
A guide to the smartest and strangest Irish proverbs
Spooky Irish traditions to know at Halloween
Interesting facts about the Irish and Halloween
Ireland's most famous haunted pubs
Find your family history online - Ireland's 1926 Census is being digitized
How the Irish ward off evil spirits at Halloween
Most read
- 1 LAST CHANCE to WIN a trip to Ireland! Don't miss your chance to share your love letter
- 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

Irish-led study finds physical evidence of gladiators battling lions from the Roman era
WATCH: What's a (1970s) house party without a take-home pack of Guinness?
How a white lie saved one Irish woman's life aboard the Titanic
Fascinating pensions records pre-Easter Rising and beyond reveals a wealth of Irish history
On This Day: Oscar Wilde's trial for "gross indecency" begins in London
Genealogy
