
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.

The scariest Irish spirits and monsters for Halloween
Irish funeral toasts, blessings, and prayers for the dead
WATCH: 1960s short film follows adventures of group of boys in Ireland
3,000-year-old baby skeleton discovered at the Irish birthplace of Halloween
The Irish American clock maker who invented the tattoo machine
How the Irish invented the phrase “so long”
Clocks go back in Ireland - but what about the Irish cows?
Celebrate National Tell a Story Day with IrishCentral Storytellers
Is this Witch’s Yew Ireland’s most haunted tree?
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
