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.
Top ten Irish New Year’s resolutions and why they’re never kept
Good and bad luck signs from Irish folklore
New Year’s Day traditions from 1930s Ireland
Irish New Year's Eve toasts and blessings to ring in 2025
Rare names in Ireland given to less than 3 baby girls last year
Where does the name Ireland come from?
The rare Irish baby boy name on the rise in Ireland
Sullivan and O'Sullivan clan reunion to break world record at 2026 event in Ireland
Irish New Year traditions that span the centuries
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
Happy Halloween! The Irish origins of today's traditions
On This Day: Monsignor Hugh O'Flaherty, the Irish priest who saved thousands during WWII, died in 1963
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
Genealogy
