Valeriya Yeremenko rediscovers her Ukrainian roots in Cavan after moving to Ireland when she was nine. Valeriya Yeremenko moved from Ukraine to Ireland in 2005 when she was nine and made Cavan her home in 2020. She described what it was like growing…

Jana Sheridan from the Czech Republic sets up shop in Arva. Jana Sheridan from the Czech Republic who moved to Arva in 1996 with his then Irish boyfriend Michael. She initially missed the winters and the city life but quickly got…

Denise Corbett from Scotland sets up an art school in Leitrim. Scottish artist and teacher Denise Corbett talks about Scotland being known for Lough Ness, haggis, poetry, kilts, beautiful castles, and sceneries. The only girl among eight children, she is proud of…

Anna Wiercioch plants her roots in Gowna. Anna Wiercioch is a Polish native who has called Loch Gowna home for the past three years, and lived in Dublin for a dozen more before that.  She came to Ireland in 2006 to learn…

Lissette Carcamo settles down in Longford. Lissette Carcamo from Chile talked about her country being known for football, wine, empanadas (savoury pastries), warm food and eating raw chillies. She said Chileans are known to be short with tan skin, and a…

Sasha Kurova from Ukraine helps new Ukrainians settle in Longford. Oleksandra or Sasha Kurova from Dnipro described growing up in the cultural centre of Ukraine, which is a country known for its folk songs. After secondary school, she joined the Protestant…

Kames Bobaker from Libya seeks refuge in Monaghan and is now working in a medical company. From a small farm in Libya Kames was a genetics and molecular biology graduate in Libya. He moved to Ireland in 2014 to study…

Nigerian doctor and psychiatrist Idara Udo makes Cavan her home. Born in Warri and raised in Port Harcourt, Nigerian doctor and psychiatrist Idara Udo is the eldest with three brothers and grew up in a sheltered village set up for a multinational…

Mercy Sule from Nigeria lived in a convent in Co.Mayo for 9 years and is now happily settled in Virginia. Mercy Sule from Delta State, Nigeria moved to Co. Mayo in 1996 with a Nigerian nun and lived in a Catholic…

Gerard Smith returns to his Irish parents’ hometown in Cavan after living in England for 42 years. Born in Manchester to Irish parents from Cavan, Gerard Smith went to secondary school in Cavan and then went to college in Dublin. He lived…