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Seeing beyond stereotypes and getting to know a new place

March 5, 2013, 20:00

When you truly live in a new place rather than just pass through, you become acquainted with it in a slower, truer, more intimate way. It’s the great privilege of emigrating anywhere, writes American immigrant in Dublin Erin Fornoff

Young Ireland Sydney: the oldest and most successful GAA club in NSW

February 25, 2013, 13:25

Young Ireland Sydney was founded in 1969 and ever since then it has provided a home away from home for Irish people in Sydney and New South Wales, writes Máire Coffey.

Guns: Enough to make you want to go home

January 21, 2013, 13:00

Do I want my children growing up in a country where school doors are locked in fear of a massacre, asks Carole Coleman

I should have got to know my country when I could

January 15, 2013, 01:00

Moving to France has made me realise I wasted my youth watching American cartoons and playing video games. I should have got to know Ireland, its landscape, language, culture and customs while I had the chance, writes David Burns.

Irish emigrants in London experience culture shock, report finds

October 30, 2012, 21:40

New Irish arrivals in London experience culture shock and anxiety, a major new report by the London Irish Centre and the Federation of Irish Societies has found.

Irish Culture Night comes to Britain

September 17, 2012, 01:00

To celebrate the ways we showcase our Irish identity through the arts, the Irish community in Britain will be bringing Irish Culture Night to London, Leeds, Newcastle and Liverpool this Friday, writes Fiona Smith of the Federation of Irish Societies.

Weary of the green or proud to be Irish?

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.

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Have your say: do you seek out or avoid other Irish?

January 10, 2012, 12:40

Do you actively engage in Irish activities like GAA where you live, or do you purposely avoid other Irish people? Do you think the support of other Irish is important, or does it hinder integration?