emigration

What do you think of when you think of Irish America? Is it the Kennedy brothers playing touch football in perfectly tailored leisurewear on Cape Cod? Is it a line of construction workers having lunch on a suspended metal beam thirty…

On the week that saw the world said goodbye to civil rights hero John Hume, today’s guest and topic feel especially apt. Maev McDaid is a Derry woman in London, completing a PhD on retired Irish people in that city, as well as being very…

In the past decade, certain subcultures have been identified in social media. Fiat 500 Twitter, FBPE and Scottish Twitter have all been documented to some degree as having their own implied sets of rules, values and norms which are distinct…

I’m a blow-in and have been for the past thirty six years. So like all migrants nobody is aware of my pedigree. Or lack thereof. Thankfully such concerns have never featured greatly on my radar. I grew up in a family where you made your…

Neil* is a US army veteran of Native American descent who worked in El Paso for 18 months. He came to Ireland in 2017. “I lived two miles from the border, up in the Franklin Mountains in eastern El Paso. I used to sit on my balcony,…

“Northern Ireland?” The cashier in Gregg’s takes my ten pound note suspiciously, scrutinising it first before turning her attention to me. “I don’t know if I can take this,” she says. “I’ll have to check.” I’ve attempted to pay for steak…

I remember realizing there was something different about me when I was only about six, sitting in the back of my parents' car as we drove home after visiting a family-friend one day. As we were driving out of the housing estate, we passed a…

With the chaos and drama of the American election ongoing, public figures are already wading into the fray to share their views. Among these are the celebrities publicly expressing their desires to leave the US if unhappy with the election…