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 Irish American clock maker who invented the tattoo machine
The wonderfully strange history behind the Irish saying “chancing your arm”
How the Irish invented the phrase “so long”
Clocks go back in Ireland - but what about the Irish cows?
Celebrate National Tell a Story Day with IrishCentral Storytellers
Is this Witch’s Yew Ireland’s most haunted tree?
The rarest Irish girl names in Ireland right now
The last man hanged in Ireland - the lamentation of Michael Barrett
The remaining symbolism of Catholic heritage 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
