Into the West - Emigrating to Ireland
It is a strange twist of fate. Here we have a country which, for most of the last couple of centuries, made a name for itself as as place of hunger, famine, poverty and violence. The almshouse of Europe, it was called. Yet it is this country which, for most of the 1980s, 1990s and 2000s has become an attractive immigration destination, a "Land of Hope and Dreams" to quote Bruce Springsteen. I'm talking about the Celtic Tiger, Ireland, of course. But why the hell am I talking about Ireland all of a sudden? After all I'm a German living in Germany, am I not? Actually, I'm not anymore, but let's take the whole thing step by step. The whole thing started in June 2012, when I found an Email in my private mailbox. Nothing surprising there, things like that happen every now and then in this present day and age. This email was different though. It was an Email by a headhunter, and a genuine one at that. I was a bit surprised again. Headhunters normally don'