Yimbyism: in North America, families taking the housing crisis into their own hands and building in their gardens, so why not here?

Rules around voluntary PRSI payments exclude people who have only worked in Ireland for a short number of years

Moygashel fire is bitterly ironic given how central the migrant experience is to Ulster’s history

Seán Moncrieff: ‘No thank you’ is her preferred method of refusal and that’s why she is an effective negotiator

The death of Martin Fallon from Sligo recently sparked a viral post about Archway’s evolving Irish enclave

Laura Kennedy: Most people stay vaguely where they originate unless there’s a powerful external reason to leave

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

There are bittersweet elements to emigration too, such as re-learning to be Irish, as Laura Kennedy learns

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

I now see that home is not always a fixed idea you inherit, but one you must participate in creating

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?

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

The figure of 103,080 from the Republic eclipses the figure reached after the Irish economic crash more than a decade ago

Despite full employment, a new survey suggests Irish people are increasingly concerned about the economic outlook

The warmth of the women’s voices is palpable in a thoughtful study that also addresses the darker side of the migrant experience

The writer discusses her first musical, being ‘a particularly bad extra’ and how Ireland, New York, Paris and Canada have influenced her

The Irish identity of people born in Britain, where six million have at least one Irish grandparent, can be complex and personal...

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

The older people looked serious and earnest, or maybe they were sad

The unholy mullet-moustache diptych is a sign that the emigrant experience works both ways