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.
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
3,000-year-old baby skeleton discovered at the Irish birthplace of Halloween
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”
Most read
- 1 It's here! A very merry and bright IrishCentral Christmas Gift Guide
- 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
Inspiring Mary Robinson quotes on the anniversary of her inauguration as President of Ireland
Irish giant folklore might be explained by genetic study
50 tragic portraits of Irish Famine victims in the poorhouses of New York
Tales of ancient Irish heroes more accessible in online database
WATCH: Meet Ireland’s last cycling postman in this 1975 interview
Genealogy
