Laura Kennedy

The essence of this delicacy will not be found in Foxrock, but in true multiculturalism — enterprising Chinese restaurant owners

There’s no warm spicy beverage to comfort us while we pull our hats and gloves out of storage. Will the year ever stop feeling backwards here?

Laura Kennedy in Australia: At home we take our sense of place for granted – when we emigrate, we have to create it

If they were the person you’d send silly cat videos to before, keep sending them

Laura Kennedy: Our jealous grip on Irish identity at home is perhaps because half the world seems to lay claim to it

I must remember that people do not emigrate to maintain their ‘before’ lives

If Irish emigrants are honest, it is fair enough that loved ones at home feel rejected

Australians are inclined to run about in search of shelter to escape a downpour, but for those who hail from Ireland, such a deluge is grist to the mill

Women don’t have ‘nervous breakdowns’ now, but we do get ‘burnt out’ in astonishing numbers

Although there have been rumblings against immigration in Dublin, I don’t hear the same here in the Australian capital

Everyone said we were mad to save her life and then to bring her to Australia, and so we were

The effects of growing globalisation make being somewhere else feel a little less of a shock

I wonder if this waiting is just how emigration feels

Laura Kennedy: Every emigrant has a little of Joyce in them — the longing for home and awareness of why some leave

A country of extremes requires residents to become durable and versatile in ways we cannot imagine in Ireland