Irish abroad: ‘One local called me a potato eater . . . ironically, he was eating cheesy fries at the time’
Emigrating is hard and might even attract the odd insult, but it also unlocks an inner strength
Irish abroad
The Irish diaspora setting up and running businesses abroad
There are bittersweet elements to emigration too, such as re-learning to be Irish, as Laura Kennedy learns
The New York island that is the final resting place for thousands of Irish emigrants
Irish people are among those buried on New York’s Hart Island, final resting place of the unknown, the unclaimed and those who couldn’t afford a ‘proper’ burial
‘We’re an Irish-Canadian-French household. I’m finally getting some return on my Leaving Cert French’
Wild Geese: Ruairí Doyle, Vancouver
Moving to Ireland helped me understand my mother, her peculiarities and weird secrecy
Love in Irish families is more of a doing word than a saying one
Emigration: ‘From a distance, I have relearned how to be Irish’
I now see that home is not always a fixed idea you inherit, but one you must participate in creating
Donegal man to be deported from US following driving charge after more than 15 years in Boston
Man (40) with American-born children has been living undocumented after overstaying visa waiver
From berets to top hats, the Tallaght man who stays motivated by his passion for preserving an ancient craft
Wild Geese: Mark Saunders, Chinon, France
An Irish woman in Peru: ‘I found it easy setting up a business here’
Wild Geese: Eibhlin Cassidy, Cusco, Peru
Naoise Dolan: Moving home to Ireland was an easy decision. Here’s what I’ve learned
Living abroad helped me embrace my heritage and realise just how cultured we are
Irish companies in China: ‘The Irish attitude to letting the hair down can really help’
Irish companies looking to set up shop in China say a budget of €1 million is needed to get going
I have become a person who goes to the gym three times a week. Maybe because I can stop working without guilt at 6pm
It might primarily be a change of location, but moving forces you to re-evaluate the entire landscape of your life
Irish in Australia on why returning home is not an option: ‘It’s lifestyle, it’s opportunity’
Irish expats unimpressed by Government ‘rhetoric’ attempting to lure them home
The Irish disapora and its role in electing the successor to Pope Francis this week
Cardinals with strong links to Ireland will be playing key role in the papal conclave from Wednesday
An Irishwoman in Portugal: ‘Blue skies, bilingual children and a flight home in three hours’
Wild Geese: Amy Kerins lives in Vilamoura in the Algarve
The challenges of moving to another country
Brianna Parkins and Laura Kennedy discuss how moving to Australia brings difficulties while we also hear from an Irish tailor in Spain
Work abroad can help boost your Irish state pension
How foreign social insurance contributions are factored into your Irish State pension calculation depends on where you worked
Yes, smartphone addiction is unhealthy – but so is getting a dumb phone and pretending it’s 2003
Going cold turkey creates as many problems as it solves. Plus, it’s not going to work
Irish abroad: I really believe in ‘one world, one family’
‘I have come to appreciate the warmth and humanity that transcends cultural boundaries’ says Irish teacher
‘There is so much to do here especially in the summer when there are festivals and open-air cinemas in the Plaza España’
Wild Geese: Lauren McNicholl moved to Madrid five years ago and is possibly the only Irish woman tailor in Spain
The Irish man who bought a home in the US after winning $100,000 on NFL fantasy football
Wild Geese: Conor O’Driscoll lives in Columbus, Ohio
‘I’m an accidental emigrant. Once you have a child somewhere it’s hard to go back’
Author Anne Tiernan followed a man, her now husband, to New Zealand 20 years ago
This homesickness is not a yearning for return but rather for reconnection
It has only been six months since my return to Australia and yet here the feeling is
‘When I come home, I am quite Scandinavian’: The Waterford photographer who took a trip to Iceland and stayed there
Wild Geese: Landscape and travel photographer Sibéal Turraoin took a hiking trip to Iceland, decided to stay for the winter and is still there eight years later
Sun and sand of the Cayman Islands proved too powerful a lure for an accountant in cold and wet Cork
Wild Geese: Ronan Guilfoyle, Cayman Islands
Moving to another country is hard. You’re not failing if you’re not living up to a filtered social media standard
Irish emigrants in Sydney have been taken in by all the social media of Bondi sunrises without realising a lot of travel influencing is a total swizz
Emer McLysaght: Five lessons Dublin can learn from Zurich
Before a work-related trip to Zurich, I received the usual ‘very dear’ warnings. And with good reason
A ‘gentler’ life in Geneva
We hear from an Irish man who helped build Dubai and a couple enjoying their move to Berlin
I’m a bad ambassador for Ireland, but it’s part of the package when you emigrate
As an Irish person in Australia, you are handed a minor unofficial diplomatic role. I do it gracelessly
Couple ‘couldn’t be happier’ after ditching Dublin for Berlin to buy a home
Housing, quality of life and healthcare in both cities are ‘night and day’, says couple
An Irishman in Geneva. ‘Life here is gentler, but I miss things about Ireland ... fresh air, smiles’
Wild Geese: John Molloy
In Philadelphia Simon Harris celebrates Irish-American story and a ‘very particular case’
Minister for Foreign Affairs says ‘we haven’t given up' on the cause of undocumented Irish in the US
The Irishman who helped build Dubai: ‘The metro was our big break’
Wild Geese: John O’Kelly owns an architectural steel company in Dubai, which is currently building the Ugandan parliament building
UK state pension deadline softened amid last minute rush
Irish people who worked in the UK can purchase up to 17 years of national insurance to cover gaps since 2006 if they apply by April 5th
Patrick Freyne: Here’s what I see when I see Irish people at their best
We are hospitable and irreverent, but also cynical and parochial. When things get difficult, who do we want to be?
St Patrick’s Day Quiz 2025: 50 questions to test your Irishology
If you think you’re an expert on all things Irish, you could be in with a chance to win a great prize
An Irishman abroad: ‘I’ve meditated in Bosnian mosques, Thai temples and Ukrainian Orthodox churches’
Peter Flanagan: 'Reminding us to breathe at our desks should not be a workplace perk'
Autumn in Australia: I wonder if you ever get used to it?
I’m forever disappointing people at home with the news that Australia’s capital does have seasons
‘The Portuguese are very like the Irish in many ways’: the Tipperary man in charge of Denis O’Brien’s luxury Algarve resort
Wild Geese: Sean Moriarty runs Quinta do Lago resort
Irish tourist escapes with minor injuries after paragliding crash in Peru
Video footage shows glider falling to earth on busy Lima road
An Irishman in Spain: ‘Salaries are much lower here, but my mental health is far better’
Co Kildare man is enjoying life in Torrevieja, where feeling the sun on his face every morning makes him feel alive
I may very well have ignored the call to home if I hadn’t been robbed at knifepoint in Brazil
A Cork author on the incident that spurred him to leave behind the life he loved to return with his family to Ireland
Irish in El Salvador: A ‘jaw-dropping’ adjustment
We hear from some of the last Irish lords and a jockey making waves in Australia
My mum dangles the question like a golden carrot: ‘You’ll never guess who’s died’
Calling her Irish mammy from London feels like playing a morbid round of Guess Who for this Dubliner
Things aren’t better in Australia than in Ireland, but they are easier
I don’t want to tell anyone that things are better here than they are at home, but they are easier
‘A great way of seeing a new city is to become embroiled in its bureaucracy’
I work in climate change, so preparing irrefutable evidence of the facts, expecting swift action and being constantly disappointed is my bread and butter
‘A haon, a dó, a trois’: How a tiny French village fell in love with Irish dancing
There’s a corner of Préty, in eastern rural France, that seems it will be forever Ireland as local residents gather every week for a jig or two
‘Last time I tried to park a car in Dublin, I couldn’t get over it’
Wild Geese: Progression with BNY and frequent travelling to the US led Alan Flanagan and his family to move to New Jersey in 2016
Irishwoman in El Salvador: I’m 60 and moved halfway around the world. Everything is different
Life in El Salvador: ‘I’ve climbed a volcano and used Bitcoin. I live with the roar of motorbikes and ire-filled preachers’
My mother’s blanket has travelled the world with me, along with her thoughts and dreams
She was a very good knitter, and wool was once not only a way to inflict emotional pain on the young of Ireland, but a necessity wrought by the exigencies of the times
Crafting jewellery in a country where it is considered rude to show your wealth
Wild Geese: Michael O'Dwyer, Stockholm
Ballrooms of romance: ‘I wasn’t the greatest dancer but when we danced together it was like it was meant to be’
Before dating apps, in Ireland and for the Irish diaspora in Britain, many’s the courtship that played out to the rhythm of a dance hall
If you worked in the UK there is an opportunity to boost your pension
Deadline looms on UK offer to buy back up to 17 years of national insurance contributions to qualify for or improve your UK state pension
The word ‘now’ is a weapon that Irish people wield as needed. But Australians use it differently
Like us, Australians sometimes talk in a way that is a few feet to the left or right of what they are literally saying
Crosswords & Puzzles
Crosswords & puzzles to keep you challenged and entertained
Stardust
Inquests into the nightclub fire that led to the deaths of 48 people
Common Ground
How does a post-Brexit world shape the identity and relationship of these islands
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