Ruby Eastwood: Why would anyone choose to live in a city as ridiculous as Dublin?
Like the enchanted gift in a fairy tale, a city will change you in ways you can’t predict, and not all of them will be kind
emigration
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
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
Manchán Magan: The deeper you dive into Icelandic culture, the more of Ireland you find
Why is there so little talk of Ireland’s role in the foundation of Iceland? If we in Ireland have distant cousins living just below the Arctic Circle, shouldn’t we spend some time getting to know them?
Deportation anxiety in Irish America: ‘I would have a clean slate before travelling’
Amid the ongoing harrowing experience of Cork-born Cliona Ward, Irish-American leaders are urging extra caution on people planning on leaving the country temporarily
Irish-born Australian residents surpass 100,000 for first time
The figure of 103,080 from the Republic eclipses the figure reached after the Irish economic crash more than a decade ago
Ireland now: anxious, jumpy and no country for young men or women
Despite full employment, a new survey suggests Irish people are increasingly concerned about the economic outlook
Irish Nurses in the NHS: An Oral History by Louise Ryan, Gráinne McPolin and Neha Doshi - Wonderful telling of a story that needed to be told
The warmth of the women’s voices is palpable in a thoughtful study that also addresses the darker side of the migrant experience
Emma Donoghue: ‘In Ireland we start with the slagging. That is something I really treasure’
The writer discusses her first musical, being ‘a particularly bad extra’ and how Ireland, New York, Paris and Canada have influenced her
The experience of Irish Britons: ‘If you’re English and Irish at the same time like I am, it’s a bit of a problem’
The Irish identity of people born in Britain, where six million have at least one Irish grandparent, can be complex and personal...
Micheál Martin chuckling about the lack of housing was a stark reminder of Ireland’s identity crisis
We sometimes seem to be clutching Irish identity in a pinched fist. We struggle to reconcile our long history of migration with a generation locked out of Ireland over housing and growing unease about immigration
‘Longing for the old sod’: The New York St Patrick’s Day parade, 1995, in pictures
The older people looked serious and earnest, or maybe they were sad
Why do so many Irish men look Australian? Ireland is under a sort of reverse colonisation
The unholy mullet-moustache diptych is a sign that the emigrant experience works both ways
No, the Irish who come to Australia are not the ‘worst’
There’s a hint of something in this school of thought. Maybe it’s classism. Maybe it’s jealousy. But it gets at me
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
English was never pure or logical. Policing how other people speak is pointless and unattractive
If you resonate with these words, especially if you literally resonate with them, please don’t tell me
Emigrating in your 20s: ‘The level that I was drinking in Ireland was 10 times higher than the life that I have now’
Emigration, home ownership and climate change are among the issues weighing on the minds of Irish twentysomethings
Power and Powerlessness in Union Ireland: illuminating Ireland pre-independence
Author turns to new and often-overlooked source material for a fresh examination of the nation before independence
Today’s 25-year-olds are a worried bunch and they’re not just sweating the small stuff
Surveys can give us an idea what they’re worrying about - and it’s everything. A bigger question is how to fix it
About 10% of people moving to Ireland in year to April 2024 were seeking international protection, research finds
Total number of 149,200 represents 5 per cent increase on previous year but includes those who would subsequently have moved on
A Tract for Our Times: A Retrospective on Joe Lee’s Ireland 1912–1985: Reappraisal of a historic classic
Nine contributors’ fresh engagement with Lee’s main themes is testament to the ongoing significance of his writing
How much does the Government spend supporting Irish emigrants in the US?
The Emigrant Support Programme spends the money on ‘long-established’ immigration centres in New York, Boston, Seattle, San Diego and San Francisco
Undocumented Irish still fighting for legal status in US as Donald Trump promises new crackdown
Former congressman Bruce Morrison says Irish who overstayed holiday visa waivers lose right to a defence if new president takes aggressive approach on illegal immigration
Older Irish people in London: ‘It is so important to have something to get people out of the house. It breaks down the loneliness’
The networks of ‘joy and friendship’ helping the older Irish community in London
Emigration to Australia is at its highest level for a decade. We need to ask why
Those being pummelled by the cost of rent are living through a form of austerity, their take-home wages and disposable incomes decimated
Much of what Irish emigrants prize in Australia can be found in Europe, but lazy logic gets in the way
Much of what Irish emigrants prize in Australia can be found in continental Europe. The only thing getting in our way is what’s euphemistically called ‘the language barrier’
A Dante for Ireland: Exile and purgatory reinvented for the dislocated
Colcester, Florence, Belfast and elsewhere all intermingle in Philip Terry’s version of Dante’s Purgatorio
My Belfast friends can buy a house and start a family more easily than those in Dublin
In their daily lives, Northerners seem more grown-up than Southerners
Dr Umar Al-Qadri: From a violent attack to online abuse, the hatred directed at me has been relentless
Diversity makes Ireland stronger, but it is under threat from rising intolerance, from those who say you’re not Irish if you 'don’t have a grandparent who fought for Irish independence'
Australia offers me a more dignified life than the one I had in Ireland. It’s not unpatriotic to say so
Like many emigrants, the reality is that I am more invested in Ireland than the country I have moved to
‘We’re opposed to ethno-nationalism’: Aontú's Peadar Tóibín on election prospects
Election profile: Morally conservative party proposes child benefits from fourth month of pregnancy to discourage abortion
Many Irish have voted with their feet but can’t vote in the election. The reason is plain
What are opponents to voting abroad so afraid of? The explanations of ‘it’s too hard’ or ‘it’s too risky’ feel threadbare and lazy
More than 4,600 Irish teachers working abroad as schools at home struggle with staff shortages - study
Teacher supply posing challenges for schools, especially in the greater Dublin area where rents are high
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