Guides, stories and insights for internationals building a new life abroad.
Founded in April 2020 by two Silicon Valley regulars, Paul Davison and Rohan Seth, Clubhouse is a voice-only app. In just a few weeks, this app has grown from a few thousand users to over 1.5 million today. Mainly used in the northern United States, Clubhouse is starting to make itself known in Europe. What […]
This week, Taoiseach Micheál Martin outlined the reopening schedule for May and June, stating that the country is in a safer position now and that the Covid-19 strategy is “progressing well” in part due to people’s actions and the success of the vaccine rollout, with one of the most significant announcements being the resumption of […]
Art and Culture in 2021: Restitution and Repatriation From Benin bronzes to Ancient Fayum portraits, across Europe, repatriation and subsequent decolonisation movements have reinvigorated cultural institutions to introspect and rethink their established exhibits. Colonial art and artefacts have long been the treasured displays of many Western museums over the centuries. One of the most treasured […]
Ben Meyers is a London-based American singer-songwriter and an alumnus of the Institute of Contemporary Music Performance (ICMP), whose musical style is quite eclectic, but folk and Americana are the primal genres that dominate it. “Thunder” is Meyers’ latest release, which dropped on 30 April. Upon this occasion, I got the chance to have an […]
Doras: Promoting and Protecting Human Rights Doras was established in 2000 by a small group of devoted volunteers in reaction to the Irish government’s creation of the Direct Provision policy. The name Doras (Irish for “door”) was selected as an acronym for Development Organisation for Refugees and Asylum Seekers, a symbolic open door inviting new […]
French music is not the most famous, but everyone has at least heard Edith Piaf’s songs before. If you think you haven’t, but you have seen one of the movies mentioned in this article, then you’ve heard one of her songs without even knowing it. Édith Giovanna Gassion, known as Edith Piaf (“piaf” being […]
The discipline of fasting dates to ancient times, is common to nearly every religion in the world (as well as philosophical systems like Stoicism), and is mentioned in the Bible more times than baptism. As it is with the spring season setting in Lent just ended, Christians, specifically Catholics, give up certain foods or practice […]
To detect more COVID-19 cases, the HSE set up so-called walk-in test centers at the end of March to offer free Corona testing. The figures prove that even people without any symptoms can have the virus. Wearing white overalls, the mask covering two third of his face, the tall man in one of Dublin’s Covid […]
H.E.R. aka Gabriella Sarmiento Wilson, D’ Mile, and Tiara Thomas won an Oscar in the Best Original Song category for “Fight For You” at the 93rd Academy Awards ceremony that took place at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles on 25 April. The song was featured in the motion picture Judas and the Black Messiah. The […]
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