From haulage to handbags: ‘I tend to feel more Thai now than I do Irish’
Dubliner Daragh Connolly: ‘We repair super-high end bags. We would get Hermes brought in worth $150,000′
Irish abroad
I made a new friend – a rare enough thing when you’re over 35
It takes a particular kind of courage to be sincere with someone you don’t yet know and tell them you’d like to know them better.
Teaching Irish in European schools: ‘There’s more of a connection with the language’
Students in Italy and Belgium benefit from a different approach to learning the Irish language
Irish comedian Peter Flanagan on cutting his teeth in London: ‘They can laugh at themselves’
Peter Flanagan’s debut European tour has been fuelled by a growing social media presence and the ‘Irish comedy brand’
I was born in Ireland but I can’t confidently pronounce Bláthnaid, as my mother could do
Despite living here nearly all of my life, growing up, supporting England in sport was unspeakable.
When I left Ireland, I hated how everyone seemed to know each other. Now it’s what I love
After two decades in the United States, my definition of home has become quite complicated
‘There’s a paradox in having moved further away from Ireland to realise it’s time to come home’
Missing home can come down to the little things and Niall O’Sullivan has been longing to see a double-decker Dublin bus or stroll down Grafton Street
‘Seville is still a lot cheaper than Ireland. You can still buy a coffee for €1.80’
Wild Geese: Gráinne Walsh, Seville
‘I said yes to every adventure in the Rockies but missed the banter of home’
My friend was like the best of Canada packed into one person: creative, kind, and full of divilment
Laura Kennedy: The gym might be a sad hobby, but it has been transformative for me
Most millennial women grew up at war with their bodies – viewing them as limiting, alien objects that kept us in constant horror of ourselves
The Co Galway winner of US show Is it Cake?: ‘This wasn’t overnight, but over the course of 17 years’
Corinna Maguire on why the Netflix show is the ‘golden goose’ for cake artists, and how its host’s mispronunciation put her town in the spotlight
Irish in LA: ‘Irish people are really good at calling out bull in US corporate life, there’s a ton of it’
Micheal Sheehy says ‘Irish people are really good at calling out bulls**t and in American corporate life there is a ton of it’
‘Your best friend on the Cayman Islands is someone who owns a boat’
Wexford-born lawyer Pádraig Brosnan moved to Cayman around 15 years ago and is raising his family there
Moving back to Ireland, so much is different and so much is still the same
But after a year home, there’s still a part that wonders what would life be like if we had stayed in London
Broke in Australia, I took a street sales job - but sidelined my better instincts
We were taught how to convince strangers you were trustworthy enough to hand you their bank details
A Dublin woman in Ottawa: ‘Canadians take time to adapt to our humour and way of doing business’
Wild Geese: Jackie Gilna, Ottawa
Dubliner in New York: ‘You have to be on your A-game all the time’
Cinematographer Daniel Byrne: ‘Being Irish abroad, I feel like I know how to draw strength from being who I am’
‘In Ireland I was the English girl, whereas in London I thought I was Irish’
Ann-Marie O’Shea on how her Irish grandmother’s use of seaweed remedies inspired her OMALY skincare business
My oldest friend is about to turn 40. He tells me he feels good about this
Dinner with him after a long absence requires no warm-up. It reminds me why making new friendships is worth the effort
From Ireland to New Zealand and back again. Twice
As a child moving back to Ireland, my classmates welcomed me as if I had never not been sitting beside them
Ireland vs Europe apartment living: ‘When family come over... this is not what they envisioned’
Irish people happily living in apartments on the Continent highlight a chasm in building standards, attitudes to communal living and sense of stability
The Irish experience of making England home
Mammy’s House is a play that tells the untold story of Irish in London during the 1980s Aids crisis
The last thing Macron needs is a letter from an Irish mother, but I have my two cents to offer
The long French school day gives the state a sizeable presence in my son’s childhood
London is a city where Irishness gets shouted out, rather than smoothed over
The nagging fear of Irish in London: If you don’t pay attention, you might end up being assimilated
A message for Ireland from one of the lesser-known Irish-American Kennedys
Letter to Ireland: One Patrick Kennedy left for Boston, but mine went to New Orleans, never to return home
Swiss salt mine makes a spectacular underground cinema for an Irish film
The Sea Inside Us will be shown underground in Basel and Bex, with Irish musicians there to play the score
If my granny saw me reading a novel, she’d tell me to do something useful
The Irish woman’s image has changed abroad, from harried mother to high-end creative. But how does this match reality?
‘I arrived in Arizona to 48-degree heat; being Irish, I decided to go for a cycle’
Kildare journalist Aoife Kane: ‘We were kind of pinching ourselves at the US supreme court thinking, how did we get here?’
‘I booked a one-way ticket to America with no idea when I was coming home’
Having arrived on a soccer scholarship, Dubliner Tony Reilly built a successful life in Ohio, on the back of an 18-month visa secured with the help of Republican Senator Bob Dole
Meet Ireland’s newest citizens: ‘We have kind of escaped the dumpster fire’
Of the 5,600 people who became naturalised Irish citizens last week, the biggest cohort were Indians, although at least one couple ‘escaped’ from the US
As I crossed the Atlantic after burying my brother in Galway, my whole body ached
‘Welcome home’: Arriving back in Bogotá after a trip to Ireland, I had a new sensation
Do you live in an apartment in continental Europe? Share your experience
Are apartments abroad simply more spacious and better for everyday family life? Or is there something in the Irish psyche?
Irish in Hong Kong: ‘I don’t feel at home anywhere: that idea is becoming less important’
Emergency shelter design: ‘We have a housing crisis, but we also have a lot of vacant office space’
‘America has been great to me but I see the world through my Irish eyes’
Wild Geese: Clare native Elaine Brennan moved to the US in 1994 on a Morrison visa and built a successful career in life sciences
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