Wild Geese
Irish people working abroad tell their stories
Turning plastic waste into design furniture in the heart of Africa
Wild Geese: Evanna Lyons, Tanzania
Intravenous foods and medicines: ‘A long way from milking cows or walking the crops’
Wild Geese: Declan O’Brien, London
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
Selling Berlin: ‘Ryanair added extra flights at one stage for the number of Irish property investors’
Wild Geese: Denis Madden, Berlin
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’
‘Saying you’re disappointed in Ireland carries weight. In Albania it doesn’t land the same way’
Wild Geese: Susan Foxton, Vodafone Albania
An Irish man in Paris: ‘When you live here it feels like no more your city: a mistress but never a partner’
Wild Geese: Patrick Scallon, Paris
Irish-born mayor of a German town: ‘I like the bureaucracy here. Things are planned’
‘There is a melodic tone to the way I pronounce words which can give away that I’m not German,’ says Michelle Wittler
Opportunity beckons in east Africa says Kildare woman based there for 20 years
Wild Geese: Julie Orr, Kenya
Industrial designer brings a hankering for a sustainable lifestyle to New York
Wild Geese: Laurence MacDonald, New York
A Galway man in Dubai: ‘You would always be cautious not to step out of line but I’ve no regrets’
Wild Geese: Adrian McDonnell is a personal fitness trainer in Dubai
From Dublin to Cape Verde: ‘Apart from family and friends the only thing I miss is the odd bag of Tayto crisps’
Amy Keenan Molloy moved with her husband to Cape Verde in 2005, where she has run bars, set up a charity and become an author of children’s books
From Dublin to Barcelona: ‘Nothing has ever stacked up as being as good as what I have here’
Daragh McCarthy works for Benevity in the Spanish city
‘You’d have to have been a turkey not to have made money in venture capital in 1997’
Wild Geese: Fergal Mullen, Geneva
‘Everyone gets the same amount of profit share whether you’re the kitchen steward or the CEO’
Wild Geese: Eoin Cantwell, Dubai
A Kerry man in Melbourne: ‘I have not seen any tough, stereotyped behaviour. I see similar senses of humour and levels of respect’
Kerry man Paul Clifford moved to Melbourne two years ago and works in PR
An Irish woman in Barcelona: ‘Climate change has made the summer months difficult’
Wild Geese: Ann King, Barcelona
‘I took few steps back in my career to get a foot in the door at Penneys’: An Irishman in the Dutch village of Enter
David Swann Lassche, originally from Cork, has climbed the ladder to become country leader for Primark in the Netherlands
‘Apartments here are very reasonable for what you get, but eating out is expensive’: an Irishman on life in Antwerp
Wild Geese: Peter Shaffrey has changed careers and moved cities but is now settled in Belgium
‘I was asked if I was a terrorist every day’: The Mayo woman helping expats make a soft landing in the UK
Eimear Maguire and her ex-husband run a successful family law practice in Manchester and Cheshire - ‘We are the poster people for divorce’
‘Things have gone noticeably downhill’: a Dubliner on 30 years living in Germany
Wild Geese: Stephen Hurley, Germany
Kerry woman who swapped RTÉ for Bordeaux: ‘Their way of life is not just about making money – they work to live and have family time’
Wild Geese: Sinead Harrington’s husband is leading rugby coach Noel McNamara, whose career has taken the family to New Zealand, South Africa and France
An Irishman in Madrid: ‘Spanish people are incredibly warm and open but they cannot get to grips with my name’
Daragh Brehony works in arbitration in the Spanish capital
‘Amsterdam is a whole lot easier to get around than Dublin ... You get a much better quality of life here’
Wild Geese: Eoin Blunnie is an orchestral composer who works in e-sports
A Wicklow woman in Venice: ‘It really feeds the soul to have all that beauty around you’
Wild Geese: Orla McLaughlin, Venice
An Irishman in Berlin: ‘For Germans, everything is forbidden unless it allowed’
Wild Geese: Property investment specialist and entrepreneur Adrian O’Sullivan lives in Berlin, Germany
‘We’re an Irish-Canadian-French household. I’m finally getting some return on my Leaving Cert French’
Wild Geese: Ruairí Doyle, Vancouver
From berets to top hats, the Tallaght man who stays motivated by his passion for preserving an ancient craft
Wild Geese: Mark Saunders, Chinon, France
An Irish woman in Peru: ‘I found it easy setting up a business here’
Wild Geese: Eibhlin Cassidy, Cusco, Peru
An Irishwoman in Portugal: ‘Blue skies, bilingual children and a flight home in three hours’
Wild Geese: Amy Kerins lives in Vilamoura in the Algarve
‘There is so much to do here especially in the summer when there are festivals and open-air cinemas in the Plaza España’
Wild Geese: Lauren McNicholl moved to Madrid five years ago and is possibly the only Irish woman tailor in Spain
The Irish man who bought a home in the US after winning $100,000 on NFL fantasy football
Wild Geese: Conor O’Driscoll lives in Columbus, Ohio
‘When I come home, I am quite Scandinavian’: The Waterford photographer who took a trip to Iceland and stayed there
Wild Geese: Landscape and travel photographer Sibéal Turraoin took a hiking trip to Iceland, decided to stay for the winter and is still there eight years later
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