This paper discusses the relatively recent shift in perspective in Irish poetry from the experience of emigration to the experience of immigration. To do so, it places Vona Groarke’s Hereafter: The Telling Life of Ellen O’Hara (2022) in dialogue with a selection of contemporary poems written by five migrant women poets of colour: Chiamaka Enyi-Amadi, Nandi Jola, Nithy Kasa, Chandrika Narayanan-Mohan, and Nidhi Zak/Aria Eipe. The widespread discourse around migration in Ireland usually tends to conflate past experiences of emigration, such as the one narrated in Hereafter, with present experiences of immigration. One of the aims of this paper is to test the limits of this comparison against these examples of poetry written in Ireland in recent years which deal both with the themes of emigration and immigration. Groarke’s Hereafter is a hybrid text piecing together the life of Ellen O’Hara, the poet’s great grandmother. This chapter shows how the unsettled emigration narrative in Hereafter can help refresh the link that is often made between the Irish experience of emigration and the inward migrations of today, and offers a reading of poems which present us with voices that deepen our understanding of migration through the ways in which they thematise “arrival” in our contemporary context.