A PhD student is seeking returning emigrants who left Ireland since 1990 and have come back. She writes in IrishEmigrant.com: I am a PhD student at the University of Aberdeen, Scotland and I’d like to meet with recently returned Irish emigrants in the west of Ireland, to take part in an exciting PhD research project.… Continue reading Researcher seeks returning emigrants

I was browsing the MerrionStreet.com website this evening. Launched this summer, the site bills itself as “the Irish Government News Service”. Searching through the archives, I found that it only had two mentions of the world “emigration”. In the first instance, it used the word in reference to a history exhibition. In the second, the… Continue reading Is “emigration” taboo?

Europeans Throughout the World has produced a handy chart of emigrant voting rights across the EU that I’ve been meaning to post for quite some time. The whole chart is very much worth a look – I’ve just pulled out one section of the data below, the answer to the question of whether expats are… Continue reading Emigrant voting rights: a study of EU nations

I wrote about this Asian fellowship when it was first announced. Now is the time to apply, if you’re a graduate interested in spending a a year studying for a Master’s in Asian Business. It’s a fascinating innovation involving members of the Irish business community based overseas, and it’s an outgrowth of last year’s Global… Continue reading Farmleigh Fellowship applications being accepted for Asian business studies

Just a snippet on Newstalk today: 75% of the jobless in Ireland are considering emigration, according to a Grafton Recruitment study. The survey also found that European destinations are the top potential pick, then Australia and then Canada. This is, of course, a change from earlier decades, in which the UK and the US would… Continue reading 75% of Irish jobless considering emigration