emigration

We must do more to welcome Irish people returning home

Many returning emigrants are highly skilled and hugely valuable for our economy

Facing into my first Australian autumn feels like winding down at the wrong time

I must remember that people do not emigrate to maintain their ‘before’ lives

Moving to Australia has shown me emigration means relationships at home will inevitably degrade

If Irish emigrants are honest, it is fair enough that loved ones at home feel rejected

When I moved back from Amsterdam, it was clear it was to a much emptier Dublin

Is it possible to live out the adventure of your 20s somewhere as familiar as home?

Connectivity key to Ireland’s successful migration story

EU tax on aviation fuel will incentivise airlines to be more environmentally friendly while retaining links with families

‘The England I emigrated to in 2011 would have found the government’s Rwanda policy completely beyond the pale’

An independent Britain was supposed to be off the leash and on the lash – instead Irishman in Hackney Peter Flanagan is watching it veer to the right

‘My partner and I are renting an apartment for the same price we were paying to share with five others in Dublin – and we’re 10 minutes from the beach’

A Meath man in Perth will never take air conditioning or being able to eat your lunch without swallowing some flies for granted, but he loves it there

‘Influencing my decision to emigrate was the fact it was becoming increasingly difficult to manage 12-hour nursing shifts’

I feel there is a half of my heart in Scotland and half in Ireland, says Elaine McGoldrick

My nine-year-old daughter has opportunities in Luxembourg she wouldn’t have in Ireland

Dubliner Darren Gorman thinks being immersed in different cultures and languages at an age when learning is easier is great for his daughter

Shane MacGowan captured what it was to struggle on the margins of a place that didn’t want you

Pogues frontman gave lyrical meaning to the tension of an Ireland that demands a complex present while yearning for a simple past

Dave Hannigan: For the long-term emigrant, a visit home can turn you into a tourist in your own past

For the long-term emigrant, a visit home can turn you into a tourist in your own past

Immigration rose significantly in 2022-23, but emigration grew too

Covid-19 recovery, labour shortages and the Russian invasion of Ukraine were all factors

Laura Kennedy: Choosing to live elsewhere is indeed a rejection of Ireland

Irish people have a complex relationship with our home country - a bit like my relationship with my brother

In Australia, my Irish accent carries less weight than it did in the UK

It is less politicised here, less burdensome to carry. Most people are simply not interested in it. This, it turns out, is far preferable

The Irish journalist who became the ‘most dependable evaluator of military strategy’

Extraordinary Emigrants: Dublin-born journalist James O’Kelly reported from Cuba on an uprising against Spanish colonial rule

‘I had to go to help my mother’: Irish emigrants to Britain step forward with their own stories

Researchers have collated an oral history of the last half century of Irish migration to Britain

Brianna Parkins: I’m the one who sought a life elsewhere, who am I to feel homesick?

It was your decision to leave home, so nobody wants to hear you whinge about how lonely or sad you feel

Share your view: Have you recently made the decision to move back to Ireland?

What are the obstacles to moving back to Ireland for good?

Ukrainians account for 41% of immigrants to Ireland

CSO statistics show the natural increase in the population has steadily declined from a peak of 48,800 in 2010 to 20,000 in 2023

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