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.
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
The story behind Ireland’s four provinces
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!)
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
