The Irishman sailing Indonesia’s remote islands: ‘I don’t really see this as work’
Homes in some villages only reachable by boat have a ‘similar feel’ to Roscommon of old ‘a little cottage with a fire’
Irish abroad
Selling Berlin: ‘Ryanair added extra flights at one stage for the number of Irish property investors’
Wild Geese: Denis Madden, Berlin
Irish in America: ‘I carry my US passport, use a burner phone and have an escape plan’
Legal Irish-born immigrants still live with an underlying sense of fear as Ice increases the scope of its raids
Irish grandmother detained by Ice: ‘If I am the worst of the worst then America has a bigger problem than it thinks’
Donna Hughes Brown was detained by Ice officials at Chicago airport when returning home from Ireland last July. Now she has a list of people she is fighting for
London is impossibly bleak when you’re lonely. Everyone has somewhere better, cooler to be
In Ireland, aspiring to high places is often met with pity. In London, it was normal
From Galway to Gdansk: ‘I see the amount of Poles moving back. I want the same for Ireland’
‘We can afford to live, to go to gigs and the cinema. Why can’t we do the same in Ireland?’
I am grateful our son is growing up here, on the beach in Longeville-sur-Mer
We have moved back to Vendée, where our son has put his feet in the sand for the first time
Is there a version of me living in a French village who pronounces croissant ‘kwassun’?
Emigration answers the question lingering in all of us who leave our home country: ‘Who could I be here?’
Share your story of bidding on property in Ireland
Have you been in a bidding war, or seen the price of a house rise far above its original asking price?
I had always intended to return to Ireland, but it feels ever less likely
Outsiders often tell me how rude Londoners are, but that doesn’t match with my experience
How a jiu-jitsu club in Melbourne became an Irish emigrant hub
‘Guys come in very nervous – they’ve only played Gaelic and perceive this as a fight club’
A Kerryman in California: America thinks it’s a beacon for freedom. Freedom from what exactly? Reality?
I’ve seen more than three decades of shootings, assassinations, riots, wars and ‘thoughts and prayers’ in my time here
‘The biggest measure is how they treat others’: a Dubliner in New Zealand on photographing the world’s top acts
From Leonard Cohen to Lady Gaga, Dún Laoghaire native Garry Brandon was house photographer in Auckland’s biggest indoor arena
How moving to France has drastically changed my Irish attitude to drinking
Being away from Ireland has allowed me to look back clearly and see my bad habits. Alcohol was one of them
How a St Brigid miracle not taught at school was reclaimed by a graphic novelist
Hannah McCann: ‘Maybe graphic novels were sniffed at in the past as not really reading, but they’re an important literary device’
An hour and a half of sunshine in a week? No wonder Irish weather chat has intensified
Living abroad I was often taken by surprise when other nationalities would stare blankly in response to ‘lovely day, isn’t it?’
Work brings me all over the world, but it’s chats over tea in Mayo that cleanse my soul
Growing up in Ireland taught me of life’s duality – you can be at a wedding one day and a wake the next
Pedestrians are too often an afterthought in cities, as Canberra’s desire paths show
Specialist car show Summernats is uniquely Australian in its culture – it just isn’t particularly Canberran
Moving home to Dublin from Taipei: ‘I used to be more tolerant of public transport here’
David Conway, who has returned to Dublin after seven years in Taiwan, made many friends in Taipei’s diverse GAA community
‘I just booked a flight there one day’: From Wicklow to life in Ho Chi Minh city
‘It has a real life-affirming vibrancy that made sense to me...exactly what I was looking for,' says Cian Duggan in Vietnam
‘Saying you’re disappointed in Ireland carries weight. In Albania it doesn’t land the same way’
Wild Geese: Susan Foxton, Vodafone Albania
The Irishman who became Excel world champion: ‘People go crazy’
Diarmuid Early ‘expected competitors to be extremely nerdy’ but was ‘pleasantly surprised’
Why so many shark attacks in Sydney? ‘Perfect storm’ conditions, say experts
Are you an Irish person who uses the impacted New South Wales beaches? Get in touch
Sorry seems to be the hardest word - unless you’re Irish
Exploring a national habit that’s equal parts politeness and passive aggression
‘I’m the most Irish person you will meet with an English accent’
I’m the most Irish person you will meet with an English accent, says Jacqueline O’Donovan
Would you like to join a panel to discuss living in Ireland as an 18 to 34-year-old?
We are creating a panel to listen to the views of under 35-year-olds on everything from society to relationships and politics
I must admit, Ireland beats Australia hands down when it comes to one simple staple
A trip to the supermarket sent me into an unexpected vortex of homesickness
An Irishwoman in Australia: I always felt safe here. Since Bondi, I check for escape routes
The December attacks have shaken Australian society’s view of and what is stands for
Why are so many Irish moving to the ‘new Berlin on the Med’?
The newcomers see this once beleaguered city as a place of creative possibility
Under the weight of the grey Limerick sky I’d forgotten, I realise there’s no coming home
Emigrating in 1983: ‘Paul Hogan was the only person in Australia we would have recognised’
I am an Irish therapist in Trump’s America: As my clients grow more anxious, I prepare to leave
I tell my gay and immigrant clients: we suffer more in imagination than reality. Words often can’t stop the inevitable
Scattering seeds with my granny felt like magic. What would she make of my exotic garden?
Irish in South Africa: Monkeys raid my garden, but snails were the only pests back home
‘But the weather!’: An Aussie voluntarily moving to Ireland seemed ludicrous to many
Fewer than 500 Australians were given working holiday visas to come to Ireland last year
‘They’ve all found workarounds’: Irish parents in Australia on the social media ban
‘Is it bad letting the government parent our kids? It’s impossible for us to police it,’ says one mother
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