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Belle with her parents Karla and Jonathan in Alicante

In the middle of April, I will leave Donegal for Alicante

Karla McGarvey lives and works on Spain’s Costa Blanca with her husband and daughter

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Lockdown has made Rome nicer, says a Dubliner who has joined la famiglia

Finbarr O’Curráin in Rome off Campo dei Fiori before the latest lockdown

The Irishman enjoying the city's landmarks without being buffeted by streams of visitors

We’ve a Covid curfew here. But it hasn’t stopped people packing nightclubs

Nightlife: the queue outside one Madrid club. Photograph: Morgan Fagg

You don’t have to look far in Madrid to find a jammed bar or club, despite the pandemic

An Irish playwright in New York: Lines remain unlearned, curtains unraised, seats unfilled

Michael Fitzpatrick with Grainne and John Duddy, who starred in his play Counting Apples

I’ll write to make the actors cry again – laugh, too. We’ll need a laugh after this

The Irish woman who took to the skies over Lake Como

Ciara O’Toole: ‘Anyone thinking of moving to Italy should be aware that fluent Italian is a must’

Wild Geese: Ciara O’Toole learned to fly a seaplane in her new life in Italy

I pay less for an apartment in Germany than for a room in a Dublin house

Robert Morrow is from Co Leitrim but now lives in Freiberg, Germany, where he is working on projects to make cities all over the world more sustainable

Working Abroad Q&A: Leitrim man Robert Morrow, who lives in Germany, explains his passion for working in sustainable development in cities across the world

I try to be infectiously positive. Unfortunately I became positively infectious instead

Covid-19: Oscar Brophy, who is from Ballyheige, in Co Kerry, is recovering in Bratislava

I’m hoping for a swifter Covid vaccine rollout. As Barney Gumble says, just hook it to my veins

A tale of two St Patrick’s Days: Parties abroad, being cooped up inside at home

Cathy Wintsch enjoying an early game of Paddy’s Day golf in Geneva, Switzerland

Irish people around the world find ways to celebrate a St Patrick’s Day like no other

How are you celebrating St Patrick’s Day overseas? Share your experience

St Patrick’s Day 2021: what will you be doing on Wednesday, wherever you are in the world? Photograph: E+/iStock/Getty

Let us know what are up to this March 17th, wherever you are in the world

From New Ross to the White House: The Kennedy legacy linking Ireland and the US

President Kennedy addresses the people of New Ross, Co Wexford, in 1963. Photograph: Robert Knudsen, White House/John F Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, Boston

From Whence I Came: the Kennedy Legacy, Ireland and America is launched today

I miss everything about Ireland: friends, family, Taytos, Grafton Street – the list goes on

Saniya Chughtai: ‘It was a pleasure to give the proceeds of the book to Dubai Celts’

Saniya Chughtai now lives in Dubai, where her new children’s book is about a hurling turtle

Extraordinary Emigrants

Nancy Cunard, the interwar poet and rebel descended from Robert Emmet’s family

The writer worked with Beckett and Joyce, and fought against racism

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The Irish woman who took to the skies over Lake Como

Wild Geese: Ciara O’Toole learned to fly a seaplane in her new life in Italy

I pay less for an apartment in Germany than for a room in a Dublin house

Working Abroad Q&A: Leitrim man Robert Morrow, who lives in Germany, explains his passion for working in sustainable development in cities across the world

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