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.
Prayers and blessings to honor St. Brigid
The Celtic and Catholic traditions of St. Brigid and her cross
St. Brigid Day is now a bank holiday! Move over, St. Patrick!
Ireland's best places to visit - from natural beauty to a dose of craic!
On This Day: Iconic Irish writer William Butler Yeats died in 1939
Ireland's little-known Mermaid Saint
Pagan roots of St. Brigid’s Well in the West of Ireland
How Brigid went from a Celtic goddess to Catholic saint
On This Day: “The Playboy of the Western World” opens at Dublin's Abbey Theater
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
Exploring the truth and reality on Irish Famine coffin ships
The origins of anti-Irish jokes and how they impacted Irish worldwide
Stand with Irish stories and sustain independent journalism
On This Day: Irish-born Captain John Lonergan awarded the Medal of Honor in 1893
Ancient Irish myths that invoke the spirit of Samhain
Genealogy
