Abroad

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‘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

By Olive Keogh

‘I seem to spend a lot of time exchanging apologies with friends these days’

By Laura Kennedy

Irish in England in the 1980s: Living with a ‘weird name and strange accent’

By Rebecca Daly

‘Apartments here are very reasonable for what you get, but eating out is expensive’: an Irishman on life in Antwerp

By Deirdre McQuillan

‘Moving home to Ireland was the best thing I ever did, but I’ll always have this love of Denmark’

‘I was asked if I was a terrorist every day’: The Mayo woman helping expats make a soft landing in the UK

By Hugh Dooley

Dexys’ Kevin Rowland: ‘Growing up in England, you had an inferiority complex. Our dads were judged as scruffy Paddies’

By Peter Murphy

‘As an Irish person with an English accent in Ireland, you have to sit there and take it’

Dublin and London changed me in different ways. Australia has shown me things I considered impossible, are possible

By Laura Kennedy

As an Irishman living in Japan, I watch the rise of anti-immigrant rhetoric with unease

By David McNeill

‘Things have gone noticeably downhill’: a Dubliner on 30 years living in Germany

By Frank Dillon

Love charms, frog bread, letters and wakes: How the Irish and Italians handled emigration to the US

By Kevin Kenny and Maddalena Marinari

Laura Kennedy: The Irish immigrant makes two grim discoveries on their first winter in Australia

By Laura Kennedy

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’

By Deirdre McQuillan

An Irishman in Madrid: ‘Spanish people are incredibly warm and open but they cannot get to grips with my name’

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