Happy Thanksgiving, IrishCentral readers! To celebrate, we've compiled some of the very best Irish blessings, traditions, toasts, and sayings for you to share with your loved ones this Thanksgiving.

Augustine of Hippo’s “Nativity Prayer,” these blessings will fill your household with the Christmas spirit. Whether you plan ...

A blessing (from to bless, Old English bleodsian or bletsian) originally meant "sprinkling with blood" during the pagan sacrifices, the Blóts (reference: AHD). A blessing, (also used to refer to ...

If it's your turn to say the Thanksgiving prayer, then we've got you covered. From Bible verses to poems, these Thanksgiving ...

Good ingredients are so much more important to cooking than “complicated or long-winded recipes,” said Rachel Allen in Rachel’s Irish Family Food. The best Irish cooks have always known this ...

"Blessing the Aer Lingus Fleet" is now available to stream for free on the Irish Film Institute's IFIPlayer. Originally broadcast in 1962, this story from the Radharc series explains how Aer ...