{"id":399848,"date":"2026-04-15T14:22:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T14:22:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/399848\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T14:22:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T14:22:13","slug":"why-more-americans-are-now-moving-to-ireland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/399848\/","title":{"rendered":"Why more Americans are now moving to Ireland"},"content":{"rendered":"

T\u00f3ib\u00edn, who was a prominent campaigner for the “yes” vote in Ireland\u2019s same-sex marriage referendum, says: “Everyone became more aware that Ireland was a more liberal, cosmopolitan, open society, and that it would be a good place to live.”<\/p>\n

By contrast, the US has moved to the political right under President Trump, who, since returning to office, has launched\u202fa major crackdown\u202fon\u202fillegal immigration.\u202f\u00a0<\/p>\n

T\u00f3ib\u00edn revisits the\u00a0Irish-American\u00a0immigrant experience in his latest short story collection,\u00a0The News from Dublin. In one story in the collection, Five Bridges, the protagonist is\u202fan undocumented Irish immigrant preparing to leave America before US Immigration and Customs Enforcement, known as Ice, come looking for him. The number of Irish citizens deported from the US\u00a0rose by more than 50%<\/a>\u202fin 2025.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“There are large numbers of Irish people in America who are official in every way \u2013 they pay taxes, own their own house, have kids in school, but they came in on a tourist visa,” says T\u00f3ib\u00edn. “If Ice found them, Ice would detain them.\u00a0That’s\u00a0really frightening.”<\/p>\n

Expatsi, a firm that helps US citizens to move abroad,\u00a0reported it experienced a month’s worth of traffic<\/a>\u202fin the hours after President Trump’s election in 2024.\u00a0Expatsi\u00a0co-founder Jen Barnett says the reasons Americans cite for leaving are wide-ranging. “[Factors include]\u00a0what’s\u00a0going on politically in the US, and has been for 10 years, the cost of living, and then safety. Gun violence is so prevalent,” she says.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"T\u00f3ib\u00edn, who was a prominent campaigner for the “yes” vote in Ireland\u2019s same-sex marriage referendum, says: “Everyone became…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":399849,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-399848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=399848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399848\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/399849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=399848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=399848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=399848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}