emigration from Ireland
Every week I get an email or two from people moving to Doha, Abu Dhabi or Jakarta and looking a piece of advice or guidance on their move. The emails are usually along the lines of, ‘Hello, we are moving to Qatar in six weeks, my husband has gotten a great positon with…
So I log to my VPN to have a peek at what’s happening back at home but all I can get are these American news about Black Friday. I refresh and reboot and realise that I’m not watching CNN or Fox, its Irish news and the reports are all on about Black Friday. Confusing because,…
It’s true that social media and the internet are allowing people to feel more connected to the world than ever before. Moreover, we are able to stream our news to ensure that we receive exactly the information and news we want. If you don’t want to hear to hear the about Trump v Sanity don’t…
Spending summer away from Doha and slipping back into life in Ireland offers a perspective which is impossible to achieve without having the experience of living life in two very different countries. Every summer when I come back to Ireland I notice various changes, a nudge here, a dart there, many only obvious when being…
It was the balm. Coming home every summer and seeing how others were suffering and suffering, I could console myself that emigration five years ago was indeed the right answer, it soothed all homesickness and sentimentality towards leaving Ireland. There were many options open to economic sufferers back in 2009; Declare oneself bankrupt, close your…
Arriving days ago to Doha wasn’t as daunting as it might have been, after all, I’d been to and lived-in Doha before. It was my first stop when I emigrated from Ireland in 2010 and it was where I called home for almost two years. Moving back to a place where you lived before offers…
Back in the 1840’s and 50’s there was a mass exodus in Ireland of young people forced to leave the country due to the economic devastation. Thousands of young people were leaving Ireland in an effort to escape starvation and avoid poverty, as young as fifteen they boarded the Coffin ships, filled with hope for…
It was literally hours before I was due at the airport to return to Abu Dhabi when I got the phone call to say that there was a strong possibility that we were getting transferred to another country. Slow to invite disappointment into my life, I hesitantly asked as to where the new location…
Such was the response to last week’s article regarding “trailing wives”, a large proportion of which implied that the focus may be a tad isolated to the wife’s perspective with little regard for the husband and such is my own personal need for approval (an insecurity possible born from being a trailing wife) that I…
It’s a common misconception that the life as an expat wife is an easy one. While many expat wives enjoy benefits such as a maid, a driver and a larger disposable income than before, the emotional cost of a little luxury can be high and may result in an identity crisis. The first expatriation may…
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