Irish abroad
When my first child was born the distance from Ireland became a physical ache
When in your 20s, you don’t think about the repercussions of building a life 17,000 km from home
After 35 years in Boston, has my Irishness been flattened out?
After a week in Ireland I return to Boston wondering, have I lost my verbal dexterity?
Grieving abroad: ‘Every Irish emigrant expects and dreads the phone call they know will come’
For emigrants the death of a loved one in Ireland is compounded. Three Irish abroad tell their stories
I tell my eyes not to search out daffodils, but the Irish seasons still live inside me
‘Was that an earthquake?’ In Ireland, buildings have the decency to stay put
‘We can’t all live on a small island’: How Ireland pushed my generation to emigrate
I left in 1983 on a little trip to New Jersy. Forty-two years later and I’m still here
Going to Prague? Avoid taxis, try the Vietnamese food and other tips from an Irish local
As Republic of Ireland football fans travel for the play-off What are the pubs to drink in and places to see according to a Limerick native
Turning plastic waste into design furniture in the heart of Africa
Wild Geese: Evanna Lyons, Tanzania
Why a tiny tropical island treats St Patrick’s Day as a national holiday
Montserrat’s March 17th mixes an Irish celebration with honouring African history and a failed slave rebellion against the British
Raising children abroad: ‘Their Irish identity is an anchor, the only portable home they have’
‘Did you know Irish for potatoes is spuds?’ In Vietnam, I began to teach my son about Ireland
‘In Dublin people say they’re exhausted. Danes look down on idea of always being busy’
‘In Dublin people say they’re exhausted, the Danes look down on the idea of always being busy’
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
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
St Patrick’s Day Quiz 2026: 50 questions to test your Irishology
Expert on all things Irish? You could be in with a chance to win this great prize
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’
A Kerryman in California: America thinks it’s a beacon for freedom. Freedom from what exactly? Reality?
I’ve seen more than three decades of shootings, assassinations, riots, wars and ‘thoughts and prayers’ in my time here
‘The biggest measure is how they treat others’: a Dubliner in New Zealand on photographing the world’s top acts
From Leonard Cohen to Lady Gaga, Dún Laoghaire native Garry Brandon was house photographer in Auckland’s biggest indoor arena
How moving to France has drastically changed my Irish attitude to drinking
Being away from Ireland has allowed me to look back clearly and see my bad habits. Alcohol was one of them
How a St Brigid miracle not taught at school was reclaimed by a graphic novelist
Hannah McCann: ‘Maybe graphic novels were sniffed at in the past as not really reading, but they’re an important literary device’
An hour and a half of sunshine in a week? No wonder Irish weather chat has intensified
Living abroad I was often taken by surprise when other nationalities would stare blankly in response to ‘lovely day, isn’t it?’
Work brings me all over the world, but it’s chats over tea in Mayo that cleanse my soul
Growing up in Ireland taught me of life’s duality – you can be at a wedding one day and a wake the next
Pedestrians are too often an afterthought in cities, as Canberra’s desire paths show
Specialist car show Summernats is uniquely Australian in its culture – it just isn’t particularly Canberran
Moving home to Dublin from Taipei: ‘I used to be more tolerant of public transport here’
David Conway, who has returned to Dublin after seven years in Taiwan, made many friends in Taipei’s diverse GAA community
‘I just booked a flight there one day’: From Wicklow to life in Ho Chi Minh city
‘It has a real life-affirming vibrancy that made sense to me...exactly what I was looking for,' says Cian Duggan in Vietnam
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