Emigrant Voices

Irishman in Sweden: Covid-19 testing is not widespread here

'Striking up small talk with a stranger on Stockholm would be regarded as strange at the best of times'

The Mayo man in New York teaching fitness classes from his rooftop

Covid-19: ‘New Yorkers value work and hustle. This has allowed people to slow down’

‘Since coming out of lockdown I’ve been a mess, and I miss my children’

Covid-19: Cork woman Emma Power on the challenges of adapting to life returning to ‘normal’

Irishwoman in Vancouver: ‘I still go to the office but the city is surreal and lonely’

Covid-19: An ‘inescapable sense of sadness’ in the picturesque Canadian city

'I'd planned to stay in Arizona one year, I'm still here 25 years later'

Covid-19: Dubliner Leslie Thompson is involved in raising money for the hard-hit Navajo Nation

Covid-19: ‘We remain digitally connected but terribly distant’

Irishwoman Yvonne Watterson, who lives in Mexico, on her fears for the future with coronavirus

‘Corona cooking keeps us fed, but home is the nourishment emigrants long for most’

The Irish professor of law cooking up a storm in her ‘quarantine kitchen’ in Birmingham

Irishman stranded in Finland during Covid-19: ‘I feel safer here’

Eamonn Cronnolly says his age and medical history put him in the high risk group for coronavirus

My pandemic wedding: ‘Every second was nerve-racking’

Irishwoman Jennifer O’Connell describes her wedding day in her Singapore apartment

Will Junior Cycle exam cancellation scupper my son’s plans to do an apprenticeship?

Ask Brian: Junior Cycle is minimum entry requirements for many apprenticeships

Irishwoman in New York: I didn’t fear getting Covid-19 but I should have

Dubliner Yvonne Cassidy was fit and healthy, but says coronavirus didn’t seem to care

‘I was living in a boat in remote New Zealand mostly unaware of the Covid-19 crisis’

Kerry woman Molly Davies say the reaction to the pandemic in NZ has been strict but calm

Covid-19: ‘I’ve come home from London. I was disturbed by the lack of action’

Niamh O’Connor had built a career in music that she loved over many years in the UK

‘My guilt at living 16,000km away is worsening during the pandemic’

Coronavirus: Nicola Holly on the challenges for Irish emigrants worrying about family

I got the call dreaded by emigrants: my da was poorly. There were no flights

Dubliner Bernard Rorke: On Covid-19 lockdown in Budapest, I could do nothing but wait

Irishman in Beijing: Some Chinese view foreigners like me as bringers of disease

‘Despite moments of suspicion, most people treat me with the same friendly curiosity’

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