Irish abroad

Are you an Irish citizen in Dubai or Abu Dhabi? Are you concerned for your safety?

Situation feels like early days of Covid, with sense of disruption but also resilience, says Irish woman living in Dubai

The French are so different in many ways to us Irish. Realising this I began to crack this place open.

The Department of Foreign Affairs is maintaining ‘close touch with the airlines’ and in ‘very close contact with EU partners’

Siblings behind food blog Hot Dinners and Murphia List discuss rise of Irish talent in London hospitality scene

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

Homes in some villages only reachable by boat have a ‘similar feel’ to Roscommon of old ‘a little cottage with a fire’

Wild Geese: Denis Madden, Berlin

Legal Irish-born immigrants still live with an underlying sense of fear as Ice increases the scope of its raids

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

In Ireland, aspiring to high places is often met with pity. In London, it was normal

‘We can afford to live, to go to gigs and the cinema. Why can’t we do the same in Ireland?’

We have moved back to Vendée, where our son has put his feet in the sand for the first time

Emigration answers the question lingering in all of us who leave our home country: ‘Who could I be here?’

Have you been in a bidding war, or seen the price of a house rise far above its original asking price?

Outsiders often tell me how rude Londoners are, but that doesn’t match with my experience

‘Guys come in very nervous – they’ve only played Gaelic and perceive this as a fight club’

I’ve seen more than three decades of shootings, assassinations, riots, wars and ‘thoughts and prayers’ in my time here

From Leonard Cohen to Lady Gaga, Dún Laoghaire native Garry Brandon was house photographer in Auckland’s biggest indoor arena

Being away from Ireland has allowed me to look back clearly and see my bad habits. Alcohol was one of them

Hannah McCann: ‘Maybe graphic novels were sniffed at in the past as not really reading, but they’re an important literary device’

Living abroad I was often taken by surprise when other nationalities would stare blankly in response to ‘lovely day, isn’t it?’

Growing up in Ireland taught me of life’s duality – you can be at a wedding one day and a wake the next

Specialist car show Summernats is uniquely Australian in its culture – it just isn’t particularly Canberran

David Conway, who has returned to Dublin after seven years in Taiwan, made many friends in Taipei’s diverse GAA community

‘It has a real life-affirming vibrancy that made sense to me...exactly what I was looking for,' says Cian Duggan in Vietnam

Wild Geese: Susan Foxton, Vodafone Albania

Diarmuid Early ‘expected competitors to be extremely nerdy’ but was ‘pleasantly surprised’

Are you an Irish person who uses the impacted New South Wales beaches? Get in touch

Exploring a national habit that’s equal parts politeness and passive aggression

I’m the most Irish person you will meet with an English accent, says Jacqueline O’Donovan

We are creating a panel to listen to the views of under 35-year-olds on everything from society to relationships and politics

A trip to the supermarket sent me into an unexpected vortex of homesickness

The December attacks have shaken Australian society’s view of and what is stands for

The newcomers see this once beleaguered city as a place of creative possibility

Emigrating in 1983: ‘Paul Hogan was the only person in Australia we would have recognised’

I tell my gay and immigrant clients: we suffer more in imagination than reality. Words often can’t stop the inevitable

Irish in South Africa: Monkeys raid my garden, but snails were the only pests back home

Fewer than 500 Australians were given working holiday visas to come to Ireland last year

‘Is it bad letting the government parent our kids? It’s impossible for us to police it,’ says one mother