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.
Titanic’s last dinner ran to ten courses while steerage ate gruel and cabin biscuits
We called them false faces and a Donegal Halloween has never felt the same since
Halloween began in Ireland and these ancient traditions are still with us
Samhain is coming! One of eight sacred days that shape the Celtic year
Three spirals, one unbroken line and centuries of guesswork about the meaning
Four Halloween games that need nothing more than apples, flour and a torch
Before trick or treating, Irish Halloween meant whitewashed horses and blocked chimneys
Guglielmo Marconi, the man who opened Clifden to Nova Scotia was a Jameson on his mother’s side
Before Google there was the seanchaí and everything they knew was held in memory
Most read
- 1 Why Queen Victoria became known as the Famine Queen and never shook the name (76 characters)
- 2 What to do when you touch down in Ireland
- 3 Bronx man adopted from Dublin at birth finds his Irish family after 63 years
- 4 Arthur Guinness was a servant who turned £100 into the world's most famous stout
- 5 Leonard Cohen's haunting take on Kevin Barry still stops Irish listeners cold
- 6 The apostrophe in Irish names tells a story technology is erasing
- 7 Where are you from? Find out using these Irish surname maps
- 8 What does it mean to be Irish in America right now?
- 9 The forgotten 1925 famine that Ireland's new government denied was happening
History
WATCH: Rare 1940 film captures Dublin trams, Nelson’s Pillar and a packed Croke Park
JFK's Irish tweed hat from Éamon de Valera heads to auction
Mayo’s starving walked 15 miles for food and were told to wait until lunch was over
Making the dead welcome - All Souls’ Day in Ireland
On This Day: George Bernard Shaw, Dublin wit with a Nobel and an Oscar, dies in 1950
Genealogy
