St Patrick’s Day abroad: From Pennsylvania to Perth, readers share their photos
Irish people around the world wore green, watched parades and danced a jig
Irish abroad
Seán Burke, Irish comedian in London: ‘My accent goes a long way when I’m on stage’
Irish comedian in London: Even if the jokes are good, if you look nervous people can tell you aren’t believing in yourself'
An Irishwoman in New York: ‘You can be who you want here if you learn to climb the ladder’
‘There is something otherworldly about this place,’ says Irish-language advocate Vivienne Sayers O’Callaghan
‘Irish people don’t take themselves too seriously’: What emigrants miss about home
From Sydney mornings to no immersion worries, here’s what emigrants miss and love about life abroad
Intravenous foods and medicines: ‘A long way from milking cows or walking the crops’
Wild Geese: Declan O’Brien, London
‘For many, growing up queer in Ireland was a trauma almost – they ran away’
Derek Murphy in London hopes Queer Irish Film & Television UK can help people ‘dip their toes back into Irishness’
Irish director in London: ‘You find yourself connected to Irish people, there’s a familiarity’
Ronan Corrigan aims to base his second feature film back home in his native Derry and in Co Donegal
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St Patrick’s Day: Irish abroad how are you celebrating? Send us your photos
From parades to shamrock lapels, where and how are you celebrating your Irishness?
An Irish architect in Berlin: ‘Freedom people here have to be themselves gave me courage’
Irish creatives abroad: Jennifer O’Donnell moved to Germany 11 years ago
Have you experienced anti-Irish sentiment abroad in recent years? Tell us your story
An Irish worker in the UK, whose boss repeatedly shouted the word ‘potato’ at her, has won an employment tribunal case
Irish in Britain: A full month after my birth, my parents changed my name
Would a Laura by any other name feel more sure of herself? Possibly. But names are personal and political
I’ve lived in Dublin, London and Limerick but this city is the most convenient and functional
Everything here is planned, rigid, augmented right down to the fixed annual schedule of government-endorsed fun
We left Ireland for a rambling palazzo in Italy and a life of simple pleasures
Emotion and passion are not clichéd slogans here but the bounding heartbeat of daily life
Carlowman in France: ‘Having kids makes you think about the kind of world you want’
Eamon O’Hara founded European network Ecolise, which supports community climate change projects
‘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
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’
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