‘The biggest measure is how they treat others’: a Dubliner in New Zealand on photographing the world’s top acts
From Leonard Cohen to Lady Gaga, Dún Laoghaire native Garry Brandon was house photographer in Auckland’s biggest indoor arena
How a St Brigid miracle not taught at school was reclaimed by a graphic novelist
Hannah McCann: ‘Maybe graphic novels were sniffed at in the past as not really reading, but they’re an important literary device’
An hour and a half of sunshine in a week? No wonder Irish weather chat has intensified
Living abroad I was often taken by surprise when other nationalities would stare blankly in response to ‘lovely day, isn’t it?’
Moving home to Dublin from Taipei: ‘I used to be more tolerant of public transport here’
David Conway, who has returned to Dublin after seven years in Taiwan, made many friends in Taipei’s diverse GAA community
‘I just booked a flight there one day’: From Wicklow to life in Ho Chi Minh city
‘It has a real life-affirming vibrancy that made sense to me...exactly what I was looking for,' says Cian Duggan in Vietnam
‘I’m the most Irish person you will meet with an English accent’
I’m the most Irish person you will meet with an English accent, says Jacqueline O’Donovan
‘They’ve all found workarounds’: Irish parents in Australia on the social media ban
‘Is it bad letting the government parent our kids? It’s impossible for us to police it,’ says one mother
Welcome to The Pause: a time when memory and doing nothing catches us unaware
New Year’s Eve brings the biggest pause of all, binding the past and present together
Irish-born mayor of a German town: ‘I like the bureaucracy here. Things are planned’
‘There is a melodic tone to the way I pronounce words which can give away that I’m not German,’ says Michelle Wittler
‘Nobody had heard of Ireland, it was amazing. I had to explain it was beside England’
Patricia Lyons in Dominican Republic: ‘Ireland was stifling. I knew instinctively there was another life out there for me’
Each emigrant story we’ve published started as a coy and bashful act of bravery
Abroad newsletter: Dormant nostalgia can arise unexpectedly in December
Irish pubs around the world: ‘The most random was a cottage inside a Jakarta shopping centre’
Meet the Kerryman on a quest to visit every Irish pub outside Ireland: Colm Dalton already has 150 pubs in 50 countries under his belt
Irish winemaker in Catalonia: ‘It’s like milking in Roscommon, but it’s 18 degrees today’
Ireland is a key market for Tom Gallagher’s Tomish wines: ‘Irish people support Irish who go out and do something different’
‘Why’s an Irish girl working in an Asian restaurant and not a pub?’
Irish abroad: What’s your favourite food in your corner of the world?
Do Europe’s must-see Christmas markets live up to the hype? Tell us your experience
Limerick Mayor John Moran postponed the city’s Christmas market because proposals ‘were developed too late’