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Poland in mourning after bus crash

Last update: Thursday, August 30, 2007, 00:00 | © Metro Éireann

 This year’s summer trips ended tragically for a number of Polish tourists as well as some working overseas. In Dublin, Polish sailor Patrick Zawadowicz (31) died in the Mater Hospital on August 13, a week after being injured while on the Dublin Viking, which sails under a UK flag and operates between the capital and Liverpool in the UK.  

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Looking for a place called home

Last update: Thursday, August 23, 2007, 00:00 | © Metro Éireann

 MAGDALENA SOBCZAK reflects on her recent trip back to Poland, where she wondered if home is really where the heart is… 

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God’s playground on fire

Last update: Thursday, August 16, 2007, 00:00 | © Metro Éireann

Magdalena Sobczak remembers the sacrifices of her compatriots in the Warsaw Uprising of 1944The Polish and the Irish do have a lot in common. You can start looking for the similarities by comparing the histories of the two nations. While April marks the anniversary of the 1916 Easter Rising in Ireland, in Poland the first of August evokes tragic memories of the 1944 Warsaw Uprising.  

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Dublin medical clinic promises services for ‘homesick’ migrants

Last update: Thursday, August 9, 2007, 00:00 | © Metro Éireann

A NEWLY-OPENED medical centre in Dublin, which offers services in Polish, English, Russian and Lithuanian, is advertising psychological help for immigrants missing their homelands. 

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Polish cultural week rounds off with debut film festival

Last update: Thursday, August 2, 2007, 00:00 | © Metro Éireann

 The Northern Ireland Polish Cultural Week 2007 was brought to a close with the North’s first ever Polish film festival last weekend, with the screening of Eastern European box office hit Testosteron – a film exploring the complex relationships generated bet-ween men and women – proving a major hit with audiences. 

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Are Ireland’s Poles fitting in?

Last update: Thursday, July 12, 2007, 00:00 | © Metro Éireann

 Magdalena Sobczak talks to the people behind the new Polish Diaspora Research Project, the first major scholarly research into the effects of migration on the Polish people throughout Europe, and what it could mean for Poles’ integration into Irish society 

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Dundalk’s Poles celebrate St John’s Night

Last update: Thursday, July 5, 2007, 00:00 | © Metro Éireann

 Polish Louth, a Polish association based in Dundalk, recently organised an outdoor celebration of Midsummer in accordance with the ancient Polish tradition dating back to the pre-Christian times, when people celebrated 23 June (which was once the longest day of the year) by making wreaths out of wild flowers, lighting bonfires and dancing all night long. 

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Ireland and Poland and the muck bin of clichés

Last update: Thursday, June 28, 2007, 00:00 | © Metro Éireann

 Magdalena Sobczak explains that Poland isn’t a sub-arctic land inhabited by vodka-swigging lunatics, and that Ireland isn’t a green magic country where a leprechaun welcomes each immigrant at the airport 

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It’s all in her hands

Last update: Thursday, June 21, 2007, 00:00 | © Metro Éireann

Magdalena Sobczak meets Katarzyna Gajewska, a Dublin-based artist inspired by her emotional connection to both her subjects and paintings 

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The tumult over Tinky Winky

Last update: Thursday, June 14, 2007, 00:00 | © Metro Éireann

 Following the Polish political scene can be challenging, and sometimes leaves me shaking my head in disbelief – it is beyond understanding why, in a unified Europe, one of the main concerns of our right-wing government is the notion of homosexuality, which they pursue with some kind of twisted obsession. President Kaczynski publicly expresses his fear that if homosexuality was promoted, the human race would be extinct. Gay pride parades are banned. The Minister of Education proposes laws sacking teachers who promote a “homosexual lifestyle”. On hearing such news, I find it difficult to find any patriotic feelings in me. 

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A postcard from Poland

Last update: Thursday, June 7, 2007, 00:00 | © Metro Éireann

 With lovely hot sunny weather arriving in Poland earlier than usual this year, it’s time to make some holiday plans. In case you have not chosen your destination yet, or are wondering how to spend your long weekend in August, I want to use this opportunity to encourage you to visit Warsaw, the capital of Poland. There are regular cheap flights to  Poland’s capital from Dublin, Cork and Shannon airports. Just imagine that in just three hours you will land in the vibrant heart of one of the largest countries in Europe. 

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Cobh’s maritime music fest sings a new tune in the West

Last update: Thursday, May 31, 2007, 00:00 | © Metro Éireann

The 4th Maritime Song Festival – which will run from 1–4 June in Cobh, Co Cork – is a fantastic proposition for the June Bank Holiday weekend, and certainly one of the events not to be missed this summer. 

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Imagining life in my mother’s shoes

Last update: Thursday, May 24, 2007, 00:00 | © Metro Éireann

As Polish Mother’s Day approaches on 26 May, Magdalena Jelonkiewicz reflects on the differences – and surprising similarities – between her and her own mother’s experiences

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A helping hand for Ireland’s newcomers

Last update: Thursday, May 10, 2007, 00:00 | © Metro Éireann

MAGDALENA SOBCZAK meets two men dedicated to providing the support and advice Eastern European immigrants need to start a new life in Irish society 

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The Irish are friendly, but...

Last update: Thursday, May 3, 2007, 00:00 | © Metro Éireann

MAGDALENA SOBCZAK offers some explanations on why many Poles in Ireland have yet to form lasting friendships or relationships with the Irish 

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Portrait of an artist as a young man

Last update: Thursday, April 26, 2007, 00:00 | © Metro Éireann

The perception of Poles as guest workers who come to Ireland to save up hard for a house or car back in Poland – and then leave as soon as they can – isn’t always accurate. MAGDALENA SOBCZAK meets an artist who banishes the stereotype

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