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.
April Fools! Some of the best pranks in Irish history
Titanic in numbers: Facts and figures about the Belfast-built RMS Titanic
Once popular boys' names in Ireland that are starting to disappear
How to have an Irish Mother's Day
An indulgent Guinness chocolate cake recipe
Best Irish wit, wisdom and sayings for Mother’s Day
My mother kept her secrets so her kids would not suffer
The real Irish woman behind one of the most iconic images from Ireland's Famine
This unusual Irish boys’ name was hardly used last year and it’s so adorable
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- 1 Irish comfort foods to whip up when you need a homestyle treat
- 2 Traditional Irish hearty vegetable soup recipe
- 3 Is there a proper way to drink a pint of Guinness? Or are the rules nonsense
- 4 Baileys Irish Cream and Irish whiskey cocktail recipe
- 5 WATCH: Amazing footage of Dublin’s Four Courts being rebuilt a century ago
- 6 When New York was Irish, in summers long ago
- 7 Old Head Golf Links in Kinsale wins Visit Cork 2024 Green Award
- 8 July 4th recipe for firecracker shrimp
- 9 Cork suspected cocaine seizure is Ireland's biggest drug bust of the year
History
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On This Day: Irish-born Captain John Lonergan awarded the Medal of Honor in 1893
Ancient Irish myths that invoke the spirit of Samhain
Margaret Thatcher described Francis Bacon's art as "dreadful pictures"
How Féile Na Marbh or 'Feast of the Dead' became Halloween
Genealogy
