Abroad

Wild Geese

‘I’m the most Irish person you will meet with an English accent’

By Genevieve Carbery

I must admit, Ireland beats Australia hands down when it comes to one simple staple

By Laura Kennedy

An Irishwoman in Australia: I always felt safe here. Since Bondi, I check for escape routes

By Elizabeth Ahern-Flynn

Why are so many Irish moving to the ‘new Berlin on the Med’?

By Mary Fitzgerald

Under the weight of the grey Limerick sky I’d forgotten, I realise there’s no coming home

By Ray Farrell

I am an Irish therapist in Trump’s America: As my clients grow more anxious, I prepare to leave

By E.R.J. McKay

Scattering seeds with my granny felt like magic. What would she make of my exotic garden?

By Gavin Pollock

‘But the weather!’: An Aussie voluntarily moving to Ireland seemed ludicrous to many

By Annalisa Cercone

‘They’ve all found workarounds’: Irish parents in Australia on the social media ban

By Genevieve Carbery

Time is a border: I wake up to family and friends’ yesterdays, untouchable to me

By Laura Kennedy

Welcome to The Pause: a time when memory and doing nothing catches us unaware

By Genevieve Carbery

Grieving my parents abroad: ‘A different kind of hard in a world that never knew they existed’

By Carol O'Donovan

‘There’s definitely a difference in the spuds’: The Irish spending Christmas in ‘County Coogee’

By Jody Coffey in Sydney

I was ready to leave Canada’s winter for Ireland, then came my best Christmas present

By Patrick McKenna

We’ve done all we can for now. This is the time for standing still and seeing out the year

By Laura Kennedy

An Irish emigrant’s letter to Fairytale of New York

By Orla Carlin

Emotional reunions at Dublin Airport: ‘He hasn’t had Christmas at home in seven years’

By Conor Pope

After the Bondi attack: ‘We would love to feel some love from Ireland,’ says Rabbi

By Laura Kennedy

Ireland has Newgrange’s light show, Mexico has a sky dance – both welcome brighter days

By Yvonne Watterson

An Irish man in Paris: ‘When you live here it feels like no more your city: a mistress but never a partner’

By Deirdre McQuillan

Letters home: ‘I could barely afford groceries in Ireland, never mind a mortgage’

By Kate Byrne

Life on a remote Danish island: It is the same as west Cork in many ways

By Cara O'Driscoll

The only way I could afford to come back to Dublin is if the Irish Government hired me for a very specific role

By Brianna Parkins

Letters home: ‘House living isn’t really a thing here. I feel like it’s the opposite in Dublin’

By Kate Byrne

Christmas can be a dissonant experience, like feeling miserable at Disneyland

By Laura Kennedy

Letters home: ‘London can swallow you up. There’s a lot of madness’

By Kate Byrne

Letters home for Christmas: ‘There’s more to your 20s than living in Ireland’

By Kate Byrne

Letters home: ‘Parisians are the Dubs of France, nobody speaks to each other on the metro’

By Kate Byrne

Am I Irish-ish? I’m not not Irish. Being second-generation Irish in Britain is complicated

By Laura McDonagh

Irish-born mayor of a German town: ‘I like the bureaucracy here. Things are planned’

By Genevieve Carbery

Heart or home: Deciding where to settle when your partner is from another country

By Rosanna Cooney

My mother dragged me under protest aged 10 to see Seamus Heaney read, but the impact stayed

By Hugo Harvey

When the plane’s wheels screech down on the Dublin tarmac, I exhale a deep sigh of relief

By Molly Muldoon

‘Nobody had heard of Ireland, it was amazing. I had to explain it was beside England’

By Genevieve Carbery

Social media ban: Irish parents in Australia - what is your experience?

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