Am I the only french teenager living in Ireland ?

frenchy1992

Hi guys !
Everything is in the title ! I've been living in Ireland, county Cork for a year and a half now and I never met anybody in my situation !
Am I the only french boy living on this island ?

eVeNtInE

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Recon

I went back to college for 2 years, loads of French erasmus students around the place!

Latchy

You could always ring the French Embassy if your lonley OP ....

sNarah

Nope, I teach in the European school and we have quite a few French teenagers!
I assume St Andrews in Dublin would have a good amount as well.

bitter_lemon

yes yes you are. you are the only french teenager living in ireland. chin up now...

poisonated

There are a good few French students in Galway. They would be Erasmus students. I would have thought that UCC would bring in alot of French Erasmus students too. That being said, they might be a bit older than you.

LimeFruitGum

frenchy1992 wrote: »

Hi guys !
Everything is in the title ! I've been living in Ireland, county Cork for a year and a half now and I never met anybody in my situation !
Am I the only french boy living on this island ?

If you're out in the countryside, then it must certainly feel like it (on the other hand, it must be great for your English ).
Is it easy for you to get to Cork city if you're missing meeting other little Frenchies?

LEH

You are definitely not the only one! Although I'm Irish, I went to a French school in Dublin. After I left it merged with the german school in Clonskeagh, Dublin called St. Killians. In my class, it was 33% irish, 33% french, and 33% half french-half irish. Did our bac and all in Dublin. http://www.lfi.ie

Maybe you need to convince them to set up a cork branch of the school!

johnrichard

I don't think that you are the only person lives there. May be your situation just pushes you to consider that way.

later12

As an English speaking country with sometimes very different social traditions to France, I suppose Ireland is not generally as natural a destination for the émigrés français... most young French who have emigrated would tend to go to London, in my experience. One often hears French spoken on the tube, or in cafés.

In Dublin, I think we less of the French than we do our other closest neighbours.

ValerieR

later10 wrote: »

As an English speaking country with sometimes very different social traditions to France, I suppose Ireland is not generally as natural a destination for the émigrés français... most young French who have emigrated would tend to go to London, in my experience. One often hears French spoken on the tube, or in cafés.

In Dublin, I think we less of the French than we do our other closest neighbours.

You'd be surprised at the number of French people in Ireland having moved to Ireland for affinities between the cultures, professional reasons or stayed after their studies ... I think, given the choice, a French person might prefer Ireland to the UK

V

Aard

Pretty much every young French person I meet asks me if I'm from Galway when they hear I'm Irish. It's true that London's the main draw, but Dublin/Ireland is popular too. In Dublin, the French are the 7/8th biggest immigrant group -- something like 4,500 in the city. Speaking of hearing French on the tube, I'd often hear it on the Luas.

franc 91

Peut-être c'est un peu tard - mais au sein de l'AFI.ie il y a un club pour étudiants français et francophones -
http://www.afi.ie/fr/le-club-jeune/