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It’s a delight to realise that your voice evokes for strangers a beloved parent who is now gone
The rules change when you emigrate: your moaning card, if not your passport, is revoked
Life in Canberra is convenient and comfortable but when I miss home, it is the sense of age that I miss
Figuring out the healthcare system in Australia has certainly been the most complex part of moving
It’s sad when the numbers say you’re better off leaving Ireland
‘When you own a house, you are allowed to live in it ... without worrying that the house is starting to look occupied’
I shuffled into the gym that first day, hunched up and embarrassed, feeling puffy and conspicuous in my leggings
The essence of this delicacy will not be found in Foxrock, but in true multiculturalism — enterprising Chinese restaurant owners
There’s no warm spicy beverage to comfort us while we pull our hats and gloves out of storage. Will the year ever stop feeling backwards here?
Laura Kennedy in Australia: At home we take our sense of place for granted – when we emigrate, we have to create it
If they were the person you’d send silly cat videos to before, keep sending them
Laura Kennedy: Our jealous grip on Irish identity at home is perhaps because half the world seems to lay claim to it
I must remember that people do not emigrate to maintain their ‘before’ lives
If Irish emigrants are honest, it is fair enough that loved ones at home feel rejected
Australians are inclined to run about in search of shelter to escape a downpour, but for those who hail from Ireland, such a deluge is grist to the mill