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.
A beginner's guide to Irish pub etiquette
The most common surnames (and their meanings!) for babies born in Ireland in 2024
Irish actress named Grand Marshal of Ireland's National St. Patrick’s Day Parade 2025
The intersection of Saint Patrick and paganism in Ireland
What is the real meaning of Saint Patrick’s Day?
The real reason why there aren't any snakes in Ireland
Everything you need to know about Seachtain na Gaeilge 2025
All the pubs in Ireland used to be closed on St. Patrick’s Day
St. Patrick’s Breastplate: the prayer of Ireland's patron saint
Most read
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- 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
