Irish abroad

Wild Geese: Jer McCarthy, a Cork man in the Big Apple, recalls building his business amid ‘days when I don’t remember eating or sleeping’

Months after the sudden loss of my father, my mother looked out her window at the car she never learned to drive

Here in London, there has been the sort of prolonged, angry heat that delights and punishes in equal measure

I feel settled in the West Midlands, an area Irish people have been calling home for generations

Wild Geese: Greystones native Sarah Catterson runs online fitness coaching enterprise Strengthinus from the Spanish city of Marbella

The number of Irish natives in the Twin Cities was comparable to the number of days of incessant showers – not many

Cork man in NSW: I’ve probably talked as many people out of moving to Australia as I have encouraged

Wild Geese: Ryan McKiernan is managing director of a social enterprise in the UK capital that tackles homelessness through hospitality

Five Irish people on that niggling holiday question: What would it be it like to live here?

On a visit home from Colombia, I realise most of us are not truly gone forever

Many Irish feel close to Australia, but most Australians I encountered don’t know much about us

Having a baby abroad: ‘Once my Mum arrived I knew I could fall apart’

Wild Geese: Jim Maher, based in Brussels, is one of two deputy spokespersons for the European Parliament

I realised the Bangladeshi area where I live had been built by a generation of Irish labourers

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We enjoy Canada’s diversity, we had always felt uncomfortable with Northern Ireland’s social restrictions

Last census showed 9% of Irish-born population had come back from living abroad, suggesting a high return rate

Wild Geese: Sharon Farren runs a fashion business on the French Riviera

I believe that countries can only be very good at some things, and Dutch supermarkets prove this to be true

Irish document opened up work and travel opportunities ‘I may not have had otherwise’, says woman whose parents emigrated from Wexford

‘Many of the cliches about Sydney are accurate. But there is a big difference between just living here and building a life here’

He and I each found new ways to go about our daily lives outside the routines we had slowly built together over 12 years

Is our gathering on an icy ridge the world’s most southerly ciorcal comhrá?

Wild Geese: Alexander Buckeridge, New York

I emigrated to the US, not for the economy, but psychological space

Dad whispered I should leave, so he could sleep: ‘I want to dream about my children’

Irish in Australia: ‘At 1am we woke up our two young children to watch the rest of the game’

Share your story: Have you told your friends and neighbours why this All-Ireland win means so much to you?

‘Even though Tokyo’s very busy with people, it’s very peaceful,’ says David Garvey (24)

Cork-based Jean Grainger writes Irish historical fiction books, popular in the US among the diaspora

Amie Wiley has learned Irish people are not very good at ‘talking about ourselves or our achievements’

There is danger when Dublin shimmers... It can fool you

Emigrants such as the Duggans mean Argentina has the largest population of Irish descendants outside the English-speaking world

Of the more than 2,000 Gaelic football, hurling and camogie players in 113 teams from all over the world taking part, most are not Irish

Cliches don’t reflect reality for the many more Irish, like me, who are settling here long-term

Iran’s attacks on the UAE and Bahrain made many expats think of going home, but for many, life is just too good to leave

Wild Geese: Ian Hannigan, Berlin

François Sablayrolles has moved back to Paris with Irish wife and children

Ireland could learn lessons from the adopted homes of its citizens

How could an identity you passively wore for so long pinch like it shrank in the wash?