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.
National Plan for Vacation Day: 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
"Irish? Catholic? Join Here": Finding community with The Ancient Order of Hibernians
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
The unique Irish boy name given to three babies in Ireland last year
Nirvana's Kurt Cobain's work influenced by his Irish roots, say family
Brigid: The storied history of the Irish name
Most read
- 1 "Lost Lear": Moving Irish theater play exploring dementia to have its North American premiere
- 2 On This Day: Irish American Bruce Springsteen was "born in the USA"
- 3 Two Irish favorites combine in this delicious apple and Jameson tart recipe
- 4 The top five places to visit in County Tipperary
- 5 On This Day: Celebrated Irish artist Robert Ballagh was born in 1943
- 6 Tracing your Irish ancestry - The Brennan Clan
- 7 On This Day: "Typhoid" Mary Mallon was born in Co Tyrone
- 8 Fall into autumn with this Bramley apple strudel recipe from Bord Bia
- 9 All about the Irish surname O'Hara
History
Imbolc marks the Irish pagan start of spring - something is stirring
The Celtic and Catholic traditions of St. Brigid and her cross
On This Day: Derry civil rights marchers shot and killed on Bloody Sunday
On This Day: Kitty O'Shea was born in London in 1846
On This Day: Luke Kelly of The Dubliners passed away in 1984
Genealogy
