An Irish emigrant’s letter to Fairytale of New York
Dubai resident says Pogues song brings her feelings of hope and second chances
Irish abroad
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
Opportunity beckons in east Africa says Kildare woman based there for 20 years
Wild Geese: Julie Orr, Kenya
Each emigrant story we’ve published started as a coy and bashful act of bravery
Abroad newsletter: Dormant nostalgia can arise unexpectedly in December
I miss Ireland’s wildness and divilment, but after 20 years away, I know it’s not for me
The Portuguese have a word, saudade, a deep longing for something beloved that is absent, exactly what I feel for my home
Irish pubs around the world: ‘The most random was a cottage inside a Jakarta shopping centre’
Meet the Kerryman on a quest to visit every Irish pub outside Ireland: Colm Dalton already has 150 pubs in 50 countries under his belt
Industrial designer brings a hankering for a sustainable lifestyle to New York
Wild Geese: Laurence MacDonald, New York
Living with bush fires: I might have left it too late, the fire is here ... get out now
Australian blaze: Frightening infernos so intense they create unique weather systems
My ‘neutral’ accent is now just another foreign voice from a country far away
We cringe at Irish people who develop a ‘twang’ and their yearning to belong
‘A firm walk and strong wind shift our mood’: health habits from other European countries worth adopting
From fermentation in Ukraine to light evening meals in Germany and evening walks in Italy. What are your tips?
Irish winemaker in Catalonia: ‘It’s like milking in Roscommon, but it’s 18 degrees today’
Ireland is a key market for Tom Gallagher’s Tomish wines: ‘Irish people support Irish who go out and do something different’
‘Why’s an Irish girl working in an Asian restaurant and not a pub?’
Irish abroad: What’s your favourite food in your corner of the world?
Bataclan attacks: I was an Irish 13-year-old in Paris and had sneaked out to a party
We had to make our way home, but the attacks stood between us and where we needed to be
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