Abroad

Wild Geese

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

Ireland has Newgrange’s light show, Mexico has a sky dance – both welcome brighter days

By Yvonne Watterson

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

Life on a remote Danish island: It is the same as west Cork in many ways

By Cara O'Driscoll

Letters home: ‘I could barely afford groceries in Ireland, never mind a mortgage’

By Kate Byrne

The only way I could afford to come back to Dublin is if the Irish Government hired me for a very specific role

By Brianna Parkins

Letters home: ‘House living isn’t really a thing here. I feel like it’s the opposite in Dublin’

By Kate Byrne

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