Generation Emigration

Graduation day in Japan

• Emigrant voices
• March 31, 2012, 11:10

Hugh McCafferty finds himself choked up at the graduation ceremony for the class of 2012 in the Japanese high school where he teaches English.

Off to New York with the iPaddies

• Emigrant voices Features
• March 30, 2012, 07:47

At 53 years of age, Barry McKinley is planning on leaving the country again, returning to New York city where he worked for more than a decade.

Why praise our colonial past?

• Opinion
• March 28, 2012, 01:00

The publication of the Mahon Report last week has shown once again that Ireland has inherited a dysfunctional system from its colonial past, writes Conn Mac Gabhann in London.

Have your say: what rates do you pay?

• Discussion
• March 27, 2012, 01:00

What rates do you pay where you live? Is there a property tax, water rates or a bin collection charge, and if so, what do you get for your money? Would you pay the €100 household charge if you were still living in Ireland?

Novel inspiration: Two weeks with Irish emigrants in Perth

• Emigrant voices
• March 26, 2012, 10:34

Author Michelle Jackson has just returned from a research trip to Perth, where she interviewed Irish emigrants who will inspire her next novel.

Planning that big day from far away

• Features
• March 23, 2012, 08:04

Recent emigrants are coming home to get married, and the weddings industry is having to adapt to meet their needs, writes Ciara Kenny.

Graph: Inward and outward migration by nationality

• Opinion
• March 22, 2012, 14:20

Graph from Dan O’Brien’s article in today’s Irish Times, which shows that immigration into Ireland by returning emigrants and non-Irish people has increased since 2010.

News of the week

• News
• March 22, 2012, 01:00

St Patrick’s Day around the world, the Irish Times Ipsos/MRBI emigration survey, votes for Irish abroad and the death of Jim Stynes: this week’s round up of emigration-related stories from irishtimes.com.

Romantic Ireland: artistic interpretation of the state of the nation

• News
• March 21, 2012, 17:47

On St Patrick’s Day, a group of 28 artists took over the half-built Anglo headquarters, now controlled by NAMA, and covered the hoarding with artworks interpreting the state of the nation, drawing inspiration from WB Yeats’s poem September 1913.

Jim Stynes: Possibly the greatest Irish emigrant of them all

• Opinion
• March 21, 2012, 01:00

In losing Jim Stynes, we have not only lost a sporting hero, but one of the greatest and most successful Irish emigrants ever to leave our shores, writes Philip O’Connor.

Emigrant friends compare lives around the world on Facebook

• Emigrant voices
• March 20, 2012, 11:09

Alan Keane has watched his friends leave Ireland one by one since they graduated from the University of Limerick last year. Now scattered across Europe, Canada, Asia and the Middle East, they keep in touch on Facebook and compare how different their new homes are.

Most Irish emigrants have prospered: have your say on part 2 of the Irish Times survey

• News
• March 19, 2012, 11:16

Coverage of the results of an Ipsos MRBI / Irish Times survey of attitudes among recent emirgants continues today. A majority of those who have emigrated in the past few years say they are happier and healthier now than when they lived in Ireland.

Where have Ireland’s emigrants gone?

• News
• March 19, 2012, 01:00

Interactive graphic showing where Ireland’s emigrants have gone over the past six years, using information from the Central Statistics Office and immigration data from the US, Canada and Australia.

Happy St Patrick’s Day! Photos and videos from around the world

• News
• March 17, 2012, 11:32

Happy St Patrick’s Day! You can follow the events in Ireland live from wherever you are in the world on irishtimes.com.

#HowToBeIrish

• Emigrant voices
• March 17, 2012, 09:02

#HowToBeIrish, an RTE documentary made entirely from videos clips sent in by Irish people around the globe showing us what Irishness means to them, will be broadcast tonight on RTE One.

• News
• March 17, 2012, 00:15

In today’s ‘Irish Times’ Ipsos/MRBI survey of recent emigrants, the vast majority report being happier and healthier and prospering at work. Have your say on the results here.

Leaving Ireland for Oz

• Emigrant voices
• March 16, 2012, 12:00

A short video by Richard Cullen about leaving Ireland with his sister and three friends on 2 March 2012, with guest appearances from Jason Byrne and Daniel O’Donnell.

Weary of the green or proud to be Irish?

• Features
• March 16, 2012, 07:32

For recent Irish emigrants, St Patrick’s Day celebrations are a chance to connect with home, but some may feel little affinity with green beer and orange wigs, writes Ciara Kenny.

The challenges of emigration: new information pack for Irish emigrants

• Destinations Opinion
• March 15, 2012, 09:00

The Irish Episcopal Council for Emigrants launches a new information pack for Irish emigrants, with advice on accommodation, visa requirements and employment issues as well as stories from emigrants, those who work abroad to support them, and those who are left behind.

Freckles, fries and philandering at Mass: what #beingirishmeans

• Features
• March 14, 2012, 08:45

Last week we asked readers to tweet their definition of Irishness. Here are a selection of edited #beingirishmeans tweets, and the winner of our €200 prize.

St Patrick’s Day address to the Irish abroad from Tánaiste Eamon Gilmore

• News
• March 14, 2012, 01:00

It is a mark of the strength of spirit and pride in our Irish communities that in almost any location you find yourself, there will be some Irish events taking place there to mark our national day.

Nostalgia for the ol’ sod

• Discussion
• March 13, 2012, 09:35

Does St Patrick’s Day bring out nostalgia in you? What Irish songs, videos, films, books or poems pull at your heart strings at this time of year, or at any time for that matter?

Australian ad for bricklayer calls for “NO IRISH”

• News
• March 12, 2012, 11:16

A job ad for a bricklayer in Perth placed on the Australian Gumtree website has attracted criticism for calling for non-Irish applications only. Have you seen other ads like this?

DIASPORA short film captures experience of recent arrivals in Toronto

• Emigrant voices
• March 12, 2012, 10:24

Barbara Deignan and her boyfriend Cian McDevitt moved to Toronto just over a year ago, and have made a short film about the Irish diaspora, capturing “the fears and hopes of those calling the city their new home”.

Have your say: what does St Patrick’s Day mean to you?

• Discussion
• March 12, 2012, 08:40

The St Patrick’s Day events kicked off around the world this weekend, and we want to know what the day means to you as an Irish emigrant.

St. Patrick’s Day celebrations: share your event

• Discussion
• March 10, 2012, 11:35

Planning a full-on street parade or a shindig in an Irish bar? Post details of your St. Patrick’s Day events around the world on our noticeboard.

Twitter competition #beingirishmeans: win €200!

• Discussion
• March 9, 2012, 09:18

The Irish Times is offering €200 for the best definition of Irishness sent to us via Twitter. Create your own definition and tweet it using the hashtag #beingirishmeans.

Exploring the world one country at a time

• Features
• March 9, 2012, 08:41

I’ve taught scuba diving in the Maldives, worked in Australia and built schools in India, and now, as I set up a new business linking Ireland and India, I’ve no intention of settling down, says ÁINE EDWARDS

Beaming Bertie: indication of all that is wrong in Ireland

• Opinion
• March 8, 2012, 01:00

Seeing photos of a beaming Bertie Ahern at the Fianna Fail Ard Fheis in Ireland’s national newspaper is indicative of all that is wrong in Ireland at the moment, writes Conn Mac Gabhann of the Irish Chaplaincy in Britain.

Are you attending the Working Abroad Expo in Cork today?

• News
• March 7, 2012, 09:12

Let us know what the queues are like. If you were at the event in the RDS in Dublin at the weekend, was it worth it?

Shouting stop!

• Opinion
• March 6, 2012, 12:00

Distances have shrunk, communications are far better, but the pain of parting with a child, of returning to stand silent in an empty bedroom, is just as difficult now as it was for parents in the 1950s or 1980s, writes historian and parent Ultan Cowley.

Have your say: do you still speak Irish?

• Discussion
• March 6, 2012, 01:00

What does the Irish language mean to you now as an emigrant?

Generation alienation

• Emigrant voices
• March 5, 2012, 09:54

The opportunity for young people to make a life for themselves in Ireland has been whipped away like a poor table cloth trick which left everything smashed on the floor, writes Will Keena, who is seeking out a new life in Melbourne.

In the land of Harvey Milk and money

• Emigrant voices Features
• March 2, 2012, 07:10

It is true: the hardest part about emigration is saying goodbye, writes Quentin Fottrell from New York.

Working Abroad Expo

• News
• March 1, 2012, 07:37

If you are considering emigrating to Australia, Canada or New Zealand, you may be interested in attending one of the Working Abroad Expos in Dublin or Cork in the coming weeks.