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.
How to make a parshell, a traditional Irish Halloween cross, to keep evil spirits away
Donn, the mysterious Irish Lord of the Dead
Behind the Name: Éabha – a rare, yet popular name (let us explain!)
Exploring "Irish Grief: Traditions, Myths, and Mourning Practices” this Halloween
The USA doesn’t dip its flag at the Olympics thanks to this Irish American
The truth behind Ireland’s healers - the seventh sons of seventh sons
A guide to the smartest and strangest Irish proverbs
Spooky Irish traditions to know at Halloween
Interesting facts about the Irish and Halloween
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
