Italian-Chinese Artist Anthea Yip makes Cavan her creative base. Anthea Yip explains how her unique Italian-Chinese upbringing with her creative/artistic mother and business-orientated father plus her private English and multiculural schooling and constant travels molded her into a young talented spiritual artist in…
Polish Banker Slavek Kazek returns to Ireland 9 years after memorable Galway trip and settles in Longford. Slavek Kazek talks about his childhood in Szczecin City in Poland and gives a historical account on pre and post World War II. How…
Afghan Aisha Khan depicts how Cavan Town became a refuge of happiness after growing up in a convent amidst terrorism bombings. Afghan Aisha Khan shares the joys of growing up in a convent in North Pakistan at the same time fearing for her…
Patricia Clarkson shares how her Sierra Leone-British upbringing brought her to Drumshanbo. Sierra Leonean-British and now Leitrim local Patricia Clarkson talks about her slave name, living with maids, being the only African student at her Woolwich school, speaking to the Queen of England, and…
Dutch chef Bas Wiebenga shares culinary flair in Cavan. Dutch head chef Bas Wiebenga from Netherlands talks about his cheffing career and sushi business which was inspired by his parents who run a well known French restaurant in his hometown in Groningen. He worked…
Blue Ityalam from India explains why information technology and arranged marriages is the way to go. Cavan-based Blue Ityalam from India shares the challenges of being a work permit-holder, the joys and advantages of arranged marriages, the global demand for…
Nigerian Prince Abel Sunday Ayodeji champions community work in Monaghan. Abel Sunday Ayodeji reveals his royalty lineage in his tribe in Nigeria, why free education brought him to Finland, and how technology got him a job, a home and a car in Monaghan where he is…
Roscommon’s nature captures the heart of American orchestra conductor Catherine Ansbro. A professional orchestra director with years of conducting experience, Catherine Ansbro from Maryland, USA left her music career to study acupuncture. In 1990 she moved to Co. Kerry where…
Rafaela Radulescu from Romania finds comfort in Cavan Town after pandemic struggle. Rafaela grew up in a communist upbringing with 10 other siblings in southern Romania. With English proficiency, a law degree, and 14 years work experience at a solicitor’s office, Rafaela…
Brazilian Singer-Songwriter Bianca Fachel Follows Her Heart to Roscommon. Singer-songwriter Bianca Fachel from Brazil leaves a mark on My Journey Home when she narrates how her passion for music and her desire to live a better life pushed her to move…