
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.

Holidays the Irish gave the world - from Halloween to Groundhog Day
Fast facts and figures about Irish America today
These Halloween traditions all have Irish origins
WATCH: Irish school children explain Ireland's famous superstitions and folklore
The myths and legends of the Giant’s Causeway
Tracing your Irish ancestry - the McCabe Clan
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On This Day: Pope John Paul II becomes the first Pope to visit Ireland
On This Day: The last active Fenian, John Devoy, died in 1928
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- 5 On This Day: Celebrated Irish artist Robert Ballagh was born in 1943
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- 7 On This Day: "Typhoid" Mary Mallon was born in Co Tyrone
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- 9 All about the Irish surname O'Hara
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