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 only women Irish men buy drinks for are prostitutes
Irish women dress to kill
You say ‘bum a fag’ I say ‘have a cigarette‘-- lost in translation & struggling with Irish English
Irish ‘Cake Faces’ girls plaster on makeup
I’m an American shopaholic let loose in Cork City
Cork nightlife is a real turn on: I’m a California hippie getting down with it
At last my first Irish kiss - alas dear reader it’s the Blarney Stone
The secrets of Irish superstitions - failing my exams or getting myself pregnant
Pregaming, beer pong and the legal drinking age limit - Young-adult party cultures of Ireland and America
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
On this Day: Bram Stoker, the Irish author of "Dracula," was born in 1847
On This Day: IRA bomb kills 12 at Enniskillen Remembrance Day service in 1987
Why the Irish no longer mark Remembrance Day
On this day in 1990, the Clancy Brothers lost Tom and Irish music lost a giant
On this day in 1990, Mary Robinson became the first woman elected president of Ireland
Genealogy
