Abroad

Wild Geese

Under the weight of the grey Limerick sky I’d forgotten, I realise there’s no coming home

By Ray Farrell

I am an Irish therapist in Trump’s America: As my clients grow more anxious, I prepare to leave

By E.R.J. McKay

Scattering seeds with my granny felt like magic. What would she make of my exotic garden?

By Gavin Pollock

‘But the weather!’: An Aussie voluntarily moving to Ireland seemed ludicrous to many

By Annalisa Cercone

‘They’ve all found workarounds’: Irish parents in Australia on the social media ban

By Genevieve Carbery

Time is a border: I wake up to family and friends’ yesterdays, untouchable to me

By Laura Kennedy

Welcome to The Pause: a time when memory and doing nothing catches us unaware

By Genevieve Carbery

Grieving my parents abroad: ‘A different kind of hard in a world that never knew they existed’

By Carol O'Donovan

‘There’s definitely a difference in the spuds’: The Irish spending Christmas in ‘County Coogee’

By Jody Coffey in Sydney

I was ready to leave Canada’s winter for Ireland, then came my best Christmas present

By Patrick McKenna

We’ve done all we can for now. This is the time for standing still and seeing out the year

By Laura Kennedy

An Irish emigrant’s letter to Fairytale of New York

By Orla Carlin

Emotional reunions at Dublin Airport: ‘He hasn’t had Christmas at home in seven years’

By Conor Pope

After the Bondi attack: ‘We would love to feel some love from Ireland,’ says Rabbi

By Laura Kennedy

An Irish man in Paris: ‘When you live here it feels like no more your city: a mistress but never a partner’

By Deirdre McQuillan

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