Legal Irish-born immigrants still live with an underlying sense of fear as Ice increases the scope of its raids

‘We can afford to live, to go to gigs and the cinema. Why can’t we do the same in Ireland?’

‘Guys come in very nervous – they’ve only played Gaelic and perceive this as a fight club’

We’d like to hear your stories about what life is like for Irish immigrants in the US

From Leonard Cohen to Lady Gaga, Dún Laoghaire native Garry Brandon was house photographer in Auckland’s biggest indoor arena

Hannah McCann: ‘Maybe graphic novels were sniffed at in the past as not really reading, but they’re an important literary device’

Living abroad I was often taken by surprise when other nationalities would stare blankly in response to ‘lovely day, isn’t it?’

David Conway, who has returned to Dublin after seven years in Taiwan, made many friends in Taipei’s diverse GAA community

‘It has a real life-affirming vibrancy that made sense to me...exactly what I was looking for,' says Cian Duggan in Vietnam

I’m the most Irish person you will meet with an English accent, says Jacqueline O’Donovan

‘Is it bad letting the government parent our kids? It’s impossible for us to police it,’ says one mother

New Year’s Eve brings the biggest pause of all, binding the past and present together

‘There is a melodic tone to the way I pronounce words which can give away that I’m not German,’ says Michelle Wittler

Patricia Lyons in Dominican Republic: ‘Ireland was stifling. I knew instinctively there was another life out there for me’

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