{"id":2270,"date":"2026-02-10T18:32:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T18:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/portrety-emigracji.com\/?p=2270"},"modified":"2026-03-11T11:09:00","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T11:09:00","slug":"a-home-born-of-longing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/portrety-emigracji.com\/en\/dom-ktory-wyrosl-z-tesknoty\/","title":{"rendered":"The house that grew from longing"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pola Artemis Zahorska: Patrycja, our paths crossed thanks to the Leadership School. I received your contact details from Aneta Birnbaum, my mentor during the Academy of Young Leaders and Polonia Ambassadors, who visited the Polish House in Galway in October.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

What role did the School of Leadership play in your journey and in the creation of this place?
Patrycja Lentowszczyk-Cichocka <\/strong>It played a very important role on my journey. I completed the leadership programme in 2013, spending over two intense weeks by Lake Zegrze and participating in study visits to various parts of Poland. For me, it was a time of rediscovering the country: creativity, civic energy, and the power of social initiatives. It was then that my dream of creating a centre for Polish diaspora activities while abroad was born. I wanted to create a space that many local activists had lacked for years. This thought has matured for a long time, but today, seeing the real scale of needs, I know that my intuition did not fail me then and the idea of creating this space was a good one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Your story begins with emigration, but very quickly turns into action. What really started it all?
<\/strong>My journey began with a longing for language, for home, for something that could save the Polish soul in a world that didn't always understand our sensitivity. When I came to Ireland many years ago, I didn't yet know that\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\t\t\t\t\t

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