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 most common surnames (and their meanings!) for babies born in Ireland in 2024
Irish actress named Grand Marshal of Ireland's National St. Patrick’s Day Parade 2025
The intersection of Saint Patrick and paganism in Ireland
What is the real meaning of Saint Patrick’s Day?
The real reason why there aren't any snakes in Ireland
Everything you need to know about Seachtain na Gaeilge 2025
All the pubs in Ireland used to be closed on St. Patrick’s Day
St. Patrick’s Breastplate: the prayer of Ireland's patron saint
On This Day: John Holland, who designed the first submarine, is born in 1841
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
How Aran Woollen Mills knit tradition into a sustainable future
On This Day: Larry Cunningham, the "King of the Showbands", was born in Longford
This World Radio Day, celebrating inventor Guglielmo Marconi’s Irish connection
How "The Fields of Athenry" became Ireland’s most famous song
WATCH: St. Patrick’s adopted home in Co Down explored in 1935 short film
Genealogy
