‘I’ve no idea when I’ll get home from my trip’: The Irish stuck in Middle East transit
Irish woman on way to Philippines spent night sheltering in bathtub as windows of hotel shook
Irish abroad
What does it mean to be of Ireland?
Ireland is distilled into an essence at this time of year, from Shamrock shakes to emerald green rivers
Are you an Irish person travelling abroad and impacted by Middle East flight disruption?
Are you an Irish citizen in Dubai or Abu Dhabi? Are you concerned for your safety?
‘Unsettling few days’: Irish in Dubai concerned by Iranian strikes but trust UAE response
Situation feels like early days of Covid, with sense of disruption but also resilience, says Irish woman living in Dubai
An Irishwoman in France: The absence of urgency is the most striking aspect of living here
The French are so different in many ways to us Irish. Realising this I began to crack this place open.
‘It’s a scary place right now’: Irish in Middle East told to shelter in place
The Department of Foreign Affairs is maintaining ‘close touch with the airlines’ and in ‘very close contact with EU partners’
‘Right now it’s only a positive if you are Irish in London,’ say Hot Dinners and Murphia List founders
Siblings behind food blog Hot Dinners and Murphia List discuss rise of Irish talent in London hospitality scene
It’s easier to be healthy and fit when work stops at 6pm
Long, expensive commutes, multiple winter chest infections and dark mornings seemed to make getting healthier feel much more of a chore than it does now
The Irishman sailing Indonesia’s remote islands: ‘I don’t really see this as work’
Homes in some villages only reachable by boat have a ‘similar feel’ to Roscommon of old ‘a little cottage with a fire’
Selling Berlin: ‘Ryanair added extra flights at one stage for the number of Irish property investors’
Wild Geese: Denis Madden, Berlin
Irish in America: ‘I carry my US passport, use a burner phone and have an escape plan’
Legal Irish-born immigrants still live with an underlying sense of fear as Ice increases the scope of its raids
Irish grandmother detained by Ice: ‘If I am the worst of the worst then America has a bigger problem than it thinks’
Donna Hughes Brown was detained by Ice officials at Chicago airport when returning home from Ireland last July. Now she has a list of people she is fighting for
London is impossibly bleak when you’re lonely. Everyone has somewhere better, cooler to be
In Ireland, aspiring to high places is often met with pity. In London, it was normal
From Galway to Gdansk: ‘I see the amount of Poles moving back. I want the same for Ireland’
‘We can afford to live, to go to gigs and the cinema. Why can’t we do the same in Ireland?’
I am grateful our son is growing up here, on the beach in Longeville-sur-Mer
We have moved back to Vendée, where our son has put his feet in the sand for the first time
Is there a version of me living in a French village who pronounces croissant ‘kwassun’?
Emigration answers the question lingering in all of us who leave our home country: ‘Who could I be here?’
Share your story of bidding on property in Ireland
Have you been in a bidding war, or seen the price of a house rise far above its original asking price?
I had always intended to return to Ireland, but it feels ever less likely
Outsiders often tell me how rude Londoners are, but that doesn’t match with my experience
How a jiu-jitsu club in Melbourne became an Irish emigrant hub
‘Guys come in very nervous – they’ve only played Gaelic and perceive this as a fight club’
A Kerryman in California: America thinks it’s a beacon for freedom. Freedom from what exactly? Reality?
I’ve seen more than three decades of shootings, assassinations, riots, wars and ‘thoughts and prayers’ in my time here
‘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 moving to France has drastically changed my Irish attitude to drinking
Being away from Ireland has allowed me to look back clearly and see my bad habits. Alcohol was one of them
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?’
Work brings me all over the world, but it’s chats over tea in Mayo that cleanse my soul
Growing up in Ireland taught me of life’s duality – you can be at a wedding one day and a wake the next
Pedestrians are too often an afterthought in cities, as Canberra’s desire paths show
Specialist car show Summernats is uniquely Australian in its culture – it just isn’t particularly Canberran
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
‘Saying you’re disappointed in Ireland carries weight. In Albania it doesn’t land the same way’
Wild Geese: Susan Foxton, Vodafone Albania
The Irishman who became Excel world champion: ‘People go crazy’
Diarmuid Early ‘expected competitors to be extremely nerdy’ but was ‘pleasantly surprised’
Why so many shark attacks in Sydney? ‘Perfect storm’ conditions, say experts
Are you an Irish person who uses the impacted New South Wales beaches? Get in touch
Sorry seems to be the hardest word - unless you’re Irish
Exploring a national habit that’s equal parts politeness and passive aggression
‘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
Would you like to join a panel to discuss living in Ireland as an 18 to 34-year-old?
We are creating a panel to listen to the views of under 35-year-olds on everything from society to relationships and politics
I must admit, Ireland beats Australia hands down when it comes to one simple staple
A trip to the supermarket sent me into an unexpected vortex of homesickness
An Irishwoman in Australia: I always felt safe here. Since Bondi, I check for escape routes
The December attacks have shaken Australian society’s view of and what is stands for
Why are so many Irish moving to the ‘new Berlin on the Med’?
The newcomers see this once beleaguered city as a place of creative possibility
Under the weight of the grey Limerick sky I’d forgotten, I realise there’s no coming home
Emigrating in 1983: ‘Paul Hogan was the only person in Australia we would have recognised’
I am an Irish therapist in Trump’s America: As my clients grow more anxious, I prepare to leave
I tell my gay and immigrant clients: we suffer more in imagination than reality. Words often can’t stop the inevitable
Scattering seeds with my granny felt like magic. What would she make of my exotic garden?
Irish in South Africa: Monkeys raid my garden, but snails were the only pests back home
‘But the weather!’: An Aussie voluntarily moving to Ireland seemed ludicrous to many
Fewer than 500 Australians were given working holiday visas to come to Ireland last year
‘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
Time is a border: I wake up to family and friends’ yesterdays, untouchable to me
Midnight comes twice for me with a mind in Ireland and a body in Australia
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
Grieving my parents abroad: ‘A different kind of hard in a world that never knew they existed’
Carol O’Donovan, who now lives in Sydney, lost both her parents in recent years and wrote a poem in response
‘There’s definitely a difference in the spuds’: The Irish spending Christmas in ‘County Coogee’
Coogee’s seafront filled with those missing home and family, waiting for morning to arrive in Ireland to call home
I was ready to leave Canada’s winter for Ireland, then came my best Christmas present
Christmas 1979 changed my life, when in the darkest part of the year I learned something important
We’ve done all we can for now. This is the time for standing still and seeing out the year
There’s an understanding that we’ve done all we can for now. It’s a time for standing still and seeing out the year
An Irish emigrant’s letter to Fairytale of New York
Dubai resident says Pogues song brings her feelings of hope and second chances
After the Bondi attack: ‘We would love to feel some love from Ireland,’ says Rabbi
Laura Kennedy meets Jewish community in Sydney: ‘We feel so hated by so many people across the world. The Irish … it’s painful’
An Irish man in Paris: ‘When you live here it feels like no more your city: a mistress but never a partner’
Wild Geese: Patrick Scallon, Paris
Ireland has Newgrange’s light show, Mexico has a sky dance – both welcome brighter days
La Danza de los Voladores takes place atop poles on shores of Lake Chapala, a testimony to tenacity of indigenous people
Letters home: ‘I could barely afford groceries in Ireland, never mind a mortgage’
Yasmin Rather in Melbourne: I’m learning so much. Nurses here have time to show me stuff, back home it was so busy
Life on a remote Danish island: It is the same as west Cork in many ways
I can’t get enough of the outdoors and the crisp cold Scandinavian air that sparkles its power into my lungs
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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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