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.
Was "Breakfast at Tiffany’s" Audrey Hepburn character inspired by an Irish woman?
On This Day: “Pygmalion” playwright, George Bernard Shaw, died in 1950
Making the dead welcome - All Souls’ Day in Ireland
The baby names that have been in Ireland’s top 100 for the past 50 years
Remember the blessed on All Saints’ Day in prayer
Celtic blessings to mark the ancient festival of Samhain
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
Most read
- 1 Book launch of "Rockin’ the Bronx" by Larry Kirwan coming to New York Irish Center
- 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
Why Easter is such an important holiday to the Irish
On This Day: Bram Stoker, the Irish author of "Dracula," dies in 1912
On This Day: Ireland's last legal execution is conducted in 1954
The men onboard the Titanic who gave up their lives to save women and children
A look back on the first Good Friday when pubs in Ireland could open
Genealogy
