Muireann O’Connell: ‘There are people in this country who hate me with the fire of a thousand suns’
The TV presenter on breaking into radio in her 20s, buying her first home, and her new show The Assembly
Me, Myself and Ireland
A series of articles exploring people's relationship with Ireland
Éanna Ní Lamhna: ‘When I went to UCD there were no points. You could study what you liked’
Environmentalist and media personality was inspired by an older girl at school to pursue science, despite it not being an option at second level
Morgana: ‘Rents are too high, it’s too expensive to live, but I will cling on to Ireland’
Singer-songwriter Morgan MacIntyre - aka Morgana - on the Irish language, moving across the Border and her new single
‘I wish I could have a tablespoon less shame. Irish people really struggle with getting over cringe mountain’
Presenter and podcaster on Irish charm and how she started out ‘taking the piss out of influencers’ before inadvertently becoming one
Cecelia Ahern: ‘If I talk to my dad about what’s on my mind versus what’s on his, it’s very different’
The author on growing up as Bertie Ahern’s daughter, why her very Irish-based fiction travels so well, and her enduring love of Malahide
‘My wife and I had the TV on and we saw the Angelus. I’m like, Oh God, they’re still doing that’
Tony Cantwell on comedy, ADHD and learning to love his home country
‘As a group of black kids, it was odd walking the streets of Tralee. We got a lot of looks’
Poet and spoken-word artist Dagogo Hart has written a new children’s book about his experience of moving from Nigeria to Ireland
‘I moved to London at 33. Unfortunately there’s nothing for me back home right now’
The Rathfarnham comedian on ‘feeling foolish’ about moving to London at 33 to try to make it, and why she doesn’t see herself moving back to Ireland
God Knows: ‘My brother says we’re not culchies. We are. If I throw a stone, I hit a cow’
The Zimbabwean-Irish rapper felt liberated upon moving from Sheffield to Shannon as a child
James Kavanagh: Anxiety had me in a chokehold ... I wasn’t able to leave the house
The influencer and food entrepreneur on overcoming anxiety, finding his tribe and life in the countryside
‘Moving home to Ireland was the best thing I ever did, but I’ll always have this love of Denmark’
By selling out and taking on capitalistic values of the UK and US, we’re in danger of selling our birthright
‘As an Irish person with an English accent in Ireland, you have to sit there and take it’
The author’s show Am I Irish Yet? explores the experiences of a second-generation London-Irish person trying to fit in in small-town Ireland
Kevin Penrose: ‘You have guys playing Gaelic football who are too scared to come out. I want to give them courage’
‘I was in Thailand and there were four of five days where I didn’t leave the hotel room. That’s when I decided to ring home and come out’
Allen Bobinac: ‘For four weeks, I was sleeping in Stephen’s Green, surviving on €1 a day’
The Croatian, who runs The Lighthouse cafe, says being homeless in Dublin was tough, ‘but Ireland only gave me the best things’
Dublin poet Stephen James Smith: ‘I’m just holding a mirror up to the city, trying to tell the truth’
The poet on the inspiration in his life, his dyslexia, Pat Ingoldsby, and how one poem he wrote changed his life
Gavin Friday: ‘U2 and I are almost like brothers – you very rarely blow smoke up your brother’s ass’
The musician on positive changes in Ireland, his enduring friendship with Bono and co, and how he never made money until Jim Sheridan came calling
Róis: ‘Moving away from Ireland shook me. Going away is essential’
The Fermanagh musician on her love-hate affair with trad music, the importance of living abroad for a spell, and why screaming in the car is helpful
Kevin Barry: ‘You can almost fool yourself into thinking there’s no class system in rural Ireland’
The author on writing, living in the Sligo countryside and how digitalisation is warping our sense of reality
Cáit O’Riordan: ‘I quit the Pogues at 21. I got sober ... didn’t see Shane much’
The musician on her love of the Irish people, her brief but formative years in The Pogues, and how her attitude to alcohol differed from Shane MacGowan’s
Chef Nico Reynolds: ‘I’ve been spat on, jeered and beaten up, but I don’t think Ireland is a racist country’
The TV chef has always considered himself Irish - but he honours his Jamaican heritage in the food he cooks
Dorothy Cross: ‘I don’t think art is about talent really. It’s about a route you take’
Irish artist says: ‘I think there’s a freedom here that comes from being postcolonial’
Naoise Dolan: Moving home to Ireland was an easy decision. Here’s what I’ve learned
Living abroad helped me embrace my heritage and realise just how cultured we are
Claudia Boyle: ‘There aren’t many places I’d raise a family. Dublin strikes the right chord’
The opera singer says singing the national anthem at the Aviva Stadium was a career highlight
Irish musician Wallis Bird: I bought a farmhouse with my partner and two other couples
I miss being around my parents in their home and I miss the seasons in Ireland, but I don’t see myself moving back
Alison Curtis: ‘On arriving in Ireland I was stumped at how men and women didn’t interact’
Today FM broadcaster says she would not get the same joy working in radio in her native Canada
‘I’m an accidental emigrant. Once you have a child somewhere it’s hard to go back’
Author Anne Tiernan followed a man, her now husband, to New Zealand 20 years ago
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
Maser: ‘I fell in love with Ireland again. It offered me a sense of place and security’
Street artist Maser on landscape, life lessons and turning back to go forwards
‘The first time I didn’t feel shame for being Palestinian was in Ireland’
Consultant paediatrician Afif El-Khuffash on his Palestinian-Irish identity and his perspective on the Irish healthcare system
Comedian Enya Martin: ‘I was named after the singer. Thank God my parents didn’t like Meatloaf’
The Clondalkin comedian on accents, ambitions and the inspiration provided by Brendan O’Carroll
‘I’m very fortunate. But I can see the younger generation are getting screwed over’
Broadcaster and podcaster Yates loves living in Ireland, but believes that the boomer generation have a lot to answer for
My sister is the only woman from her secondary school class not living in Australia, and she emigrated to Switzerland
Dublin-born podcaster Doireann Ní Ghlacáin has learned to embrace her identity as a Gaelgeoir and fiddle-player, whether it’s hip or not
Sarah Webb: By age 12, I was reading Stephen King and all kinds of dodgy horror books
The author on her childhood, the importance of reading from a young age, and the role libraries play in researching her new book
Caoimhe Ní Laighin: ‘The best thing about Ireland is that people will put themselves out of their way to help you’
Irish wasn’t Caoimhe Ní Laighin’s first language growing up, but with the help of good teachers, the presenter made it part of her career
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