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.
Behind the Irish name: Mairead, the once popular name on the verge of extinction
Traditional Irish wakes called for drinks, pranks, games, and songs
The traditional role of pubs in Irish funerals
Possibilities, opportunities and hope – Irish rainbow blessings
WATCH: US travel documentary from 1934 gives glimpse of Ireland
You know you were brought up by Irish parents if…
20 Irish baby names to avoid if you don’t like popular or trendy names
National Soup Month: Irish colcannon and thyme soup recipe
Behind the name: Síofra, the top rising Irish name for baby girls
Most read
- 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
WATCH: Dr Jeremiah Lane: Ireland’s “oldest GP” practiced medicine into his late 90s
Irish author remembered today on "The Duchess Who Wasn't" Day
Royal roots unearthed: Queen Elizabeth’s lineage traces back to Brian Boru
The Troubles remembered: 3,500 lives lost and its lingering echoes
On this day: In 1725 Dublin children received the first smallpox vaccination
Genealogy
