My Sydney commute taught me the absent emigrant feeling – belonging
Irish abroad, share your stories: From favourite foods to social interactions
Irish abroad
Irish abroad: We want to hear your stories of life outside Ireland
Whether you have lived in another country for one year or 40 years, we’d like to share your perspective
Smiling UK cashiers and baby-patting Italians: Do small interactions lift your day?
Talk about the weather: Tell us what the small social interactions are like where you live
From Dublin to Cape Verde: ‘Apart from family and friends the only thing I miss is the odd bag of Tayto crisps’
Amy Keenan Molloy moved with her husband to Cape Verde in 2005, where she has run bars, set up a charity and become an author of children’s books
Irish overseas on the presidential election: ‘I follow Irish news, I’m proud of being Irish. Why can’t I vote?’
Irish Times readers outside the State share their views on being excluded from voting in the presidential election
Should Irish citizens abroad have right to vote in presidential elections? Have your say
Presidential election: What does the office mean to people living outside State?
‘Bondi is crumbling under the weight of Irish accents, I’ve heard more than I can count’
‘Nobody pays attention to how naked everybody is. Being Irish, I’m wearing jeans’
From Dublin to Barcelona: ‘Nothing has ever stacked up as being as good as what I have here’
Daragh McCarthy works for Benevity in the Spanish city
Visa changes mean leaving Ireland for a life in the US is suddenly much less feasible
Big changes in the US mean educated and professional workers must confront what working-class migrants have long endured
‘Don’t call Ireland a kip’: I get defensive when people who have moved away scoff about it
Please don’t scorn Ireland from a new height. It’s my home and I love it
‘You’d have to have been a turkey not to have made money in venture capital in 1997’
Wild Geese: Fergal Mullen, Geneva
Changes to US visa programme a blow for Irish emigrants
Elsewhere, we hear about starting a catering business in Dubai and Mexico City’s first GAA club
Birds in Australia are like birds in Ireland, except almost certainly on cocaine
For the majority of the year, Australian magpies are good neighbours - in September and October, things change
What is the H-1B visa and how will changes to the scheme affect 372 Irish workers in the US?
Move by Donald Trump has left companies scrambling to figure out exactly what is happening amid fears of hefty new fees
‘I always have a minimum of €50 on me. Living in Austria, you can never be certain if you can pay with a card’
Me & My Money: Andy Culligan, chief executive and cofounder, Purple Path
‘Everyone gets the same amount of profit share whether you’re the kitchen steward or the CEO’
Wild Geese: Eoin Cantwell, Dubai
Loving Ireland is easy. Living in it, not so much
Many Irish emigrants feel drawn to home. We need to give them more reasons to return
Studying in Asia: ‘I was excited and also a bit scared, but I love to challenge myself’
Rodhan Harris (20) from Co Clare is on a placement in Singapore – an experience he says has been the opportunity of a lifetime
Home or away? How Irish and EU colleges compare
While studying in Ireland has its appeals, going abroad offers the experience of a different culture or language and fees are often lower
Ten universities around Europe that offer courses through English
Irish students are entitled to study at any university in the EU under the same conditions as nationals
How does changing my will to leave less to one child create a tax problem for them?
Solicitor advises woman that amending will now will have adverse tax impact on child living abroad - without providing any detail
Surge in numbers emigrating to Australia
Number arriving in Ireland over 12 months falls to 125,300, CSO figures show
Study abroad in the Netherlands and Italy: ‘It all started with a leap of faith’
Even if the international experiences don’t tempt you, the cheaper tuition fees and sunshine just might
I am too negative about Ireland and too positive about Australia. I can’t please everyone
When you choose to move abroad, you accept the reality that life at home moves on without you
Education abroad: ‘Moving from Limerick to Dublin as it used to be is now like moving from Ireland to the Netherlands’
Most universities on the Continent pay little heed to points a student has accrued in the Leaving Cert
A Kerry man in Melbourne: ‘I have not seen any tough, stereotyped behaviour. I see similar senses of humour and levels of respect’
Kerry man Paul Clifford moved to Melbourne two years ago and works in PR
An Irish woman in Barcelona: ‘Climate change has made the summer months difficult’
Wild Geese: Ann King, Barcelona
‘We can’t have nice things in Ireland because no one follows the rules’: Emigrants on returning home
More than 30,000 Irish citizens returned to Ireland in the year to April 2024. Four recent returnees share their experiences of coming home
‘I moved to London at 33. Unfortunately there’s nothing for me back home right now’
The Rathfarnham comedian on ‘feeling foolish’ about moving to London at 33 to try to make it, and why she doesn’t see herself moving back to Ireland
Irish in Australia: ‘Assimilating isn’t easy, take this minor cultural difference when paying’
It’s easy for an Irish person to presume assimilating in Australia will be straightforward, but this isn’t always the case
‘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
David Swann Lassche, originally from Cork, has climbed the ladder to become country leader for Primark in the Netherlands
There’s more to Irish history than eight centuries of British oppression and failed uprisings
Whether we’re moving towards a united Ireland or shared island, we need to face awkward questions about identity
‘I seem to spend a lot of time exchanging apologies with friends these days’
This bizarre dance of calendars appears to be the language of modern friendship
Irish in England in the 1980s: Living with a ‘weird name and strange accent’
Kevin Rowland of Dexys Midnight Runners speaks of Irish influence of British music
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