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

Tony Cantwell on comedy, ADHD and learning to love his home country

Poet and spoken-word artist Dagogo Hart has written a new children’s book about his experience of moving from Nigeria to Ireland

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

The Zimbabwean-Irish rapper felt liberated upon moving from Sheffield to Shannon as a child

The influencer and food entrepreneur on overcoming anxiety, finding his tribe and life in the countryside

By selling out and taking on capitalistic values of the UK and US, we’re in danger of selling our birthright

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

‘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’

The Croatian, who runs The Lighthouse cafe, says being homeless in Dublin was tough, ‘but Ireland only gave me the best things’

The poet on the inspiration in his life, his dyslexia, Pat Ingoldsby, and how one poem he wrote changed his life

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

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

The author on writing, living in the Sligo countryside and how digitalisation is warping our sense of reality

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

The TV chef has always considered himself Irish - but he honours his Jamaican heritage in the food he cooks

Irish artist says: ‘I think there’s a freedom here that comes from being postcolonial’

Living abroad helped me embrace my heritage and realise just how cultured we are

The opera singer says singing the national anthem at the Aviva Stadium was a career highlight

I miss being around my parents in their home and I miss the seasons in Ireland, but I don’t see myself moving back