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’
Irish abroad
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
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
‘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
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
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
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
Letters home: ‘House living isn’t really a thing here. I feel like it’s the opposite in Dublin’
Dubliner Max Deane: The Dutch are ‘very direct, they’re very blunt. I feel like we, as Irish people, will faff about’ over things
Letters home: ‘London can swallow you up. There’s a lot of madness’
Emily Bourke is doing her bit to promote the Irish language in a city that can ‘swallow you up’
Christmas can be a dissonant experience, like feeling miserable at Disneyland
It’s a strange time of year. We experience a lot of ‘how things ought to be’ clashing with ‘how things are’
Letters home for Christmas: ‘There’s more to your 20s than living in Ireland’
Dubai is amazing, but there’s something so special about Ireland, says Sinéad McCann
Am I Irish-ish? I’m not not Irish. Being second-generation Irish in Britain is complicated
Us second-generation Irish in Britain, raised with back-home accents and framed aerial photos of bungalows - who are we really?
Letters home: ‘Parisians are the Dubs of France, nobody speaks to each other on the metro’
‘Listening to Donegal radio on the Paris Metro makes me smile’ says Ryan O’Connor
Reader callout: Are you in Sydney? Share your experience in the wake of the mass shooting at Bondi Beach
Reader callout: Are you in Sydney?
Irish-born mayor of a German town: ‘I like the bureaucracy here. Things are planned’
‘There is a melodic tone to the way I pronounce words which can give away that I’m not German,’ says Michelle Wittler
My mother dragged me under protest aged 10 to see Seamus Heaney read, but the impact stayed
As an Irish man living abroad, the poet has cropped up again and again in different times and places of my life
When the plane’s wheels screech down on the Dublin tarmac, I exhale a deep sigh of relief
When plane’s wheels screech down on the tarmac I exhale a deep sigh of relief
‘Nobody had heard of Ireland, it was amazing. I had to explain it was beside England’
Patricia Lyons in Dominican Republic: ‘Ireland was stifling. I knew instinctively there was another life out there for me’
Social media ban: Irish parents in Australia - what is your experience?
Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, Snapchat, X, YouTube, Reddit will need to deactivate all accounts for under 16s from December 10th
Why are British social media influencers in dark snugs seeking perfect pints of Guinness?
Is Guinness, especially in an Anglo-Irish context, a more palatable brand of Irishness for the wax-jacket set?
The Christmas tree looks like the sort you slowly slide down a wall beside to have a cry
Christmas has the learned anticipation of childhood blended with adult disappointment that nothing magical has happened
I’m far from home, but the similarities between Ireland and Mexico are many
I’m hunkering down, blooming where I planted myself, I’ve even bought a washing machine
Ireland’s graduates: ‘Everyone I know is thinking of moving abroad or has gone’
Many find it tough to find work in their desired sector upon leaving college - a harsh situation each year that doesn’t seem to improve
World Cup playoffs in Prague: Avoid €800 flights with insider tips from an Irish local
Where to stay and what else to see when the Republic of Ireland play the Czech Republic in March
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