Her Irish eyes are smiling, but it is her mother tongue that caught the attention of New Yorkers.
Born and raised on a farm in Cork County, Ireland, Vivienne Sayers O'Callaghan moved to Ridgewood, Queens in 2023 and soon began posting videos on her page. @vivienne_in_nyc.
Her lessons about Irish and culture are as popular as green beer on St. Patrick's Day, and go viral in Tiktok.
One of her early people explained the difference between walking down the streets of Ireland and the Big Apple.
“In Ireland, we make eye contact with the person you are. [passing] And you either greet them or nodded,” O'Callaghan told the Post. “And when I moved to New York, I found it very difficult to keep on walking past someone and looking at the floor. I found it very rude.”
Her Most Viewed Posts – Gorgeous Irish woman names – She has earned a total of 10 million views on Tiktok, Instagram and Facebook, where she explains the meaning behind Monicas such as Laoise, Muireann, Róisín, Órlaith.
The 23-year-old launched a social media platform after she realized that most Americans were in the dark about her hometown.
“Everyone said, 'Oh, oh my god, you're from Ireland. Let's talk about hunger and potatoes,” she said.
“And I said, 'This is not the story I want to continue. I want to tell people about the people of Ireland and Ireland, as we are one of the most progressive and wealthy countries in Europe.”
One of her missions is to teach Irish, known as Gailge.
“Everyone was like, 'I'm from Ireland.' They were 10%, 50%, 90% Irish, and no one knew Irish,” she explained.
O'Callaghan's ingenuity mixed with the luck of the Irish, exploded her pages, with 150,000 followers within six months.
“I just found this niche,” she said. “Then I solidified this incredible base of Irish and Irish-Americans from around the world, especially on the East Coast of the United States.”
She is popular online and works full-time as an Irish content creator and supporter, which means she ends up looking at Green.
“I'm now helping others build online and personal brands, especially Irish companies and Irish artists to make it in the US,” O'Callaghan said.
She also shares the video with information Interesting things like submarines invented by the Irish and seasoned potato chips and Things I didn't know about St. Patrick's Day.
“His name wasn't Patrick. He was a slave brought from Wales, so it was Mewin Skat,” she explained of the post.
She's also posted How to turn off f-k in Irish.
“Of course, it needs to be practical,” she said with a laugh.
“And what I love to say to people is that Irish is so old that there's no exact way to say 'F-K-off'.
O'Callaghan first moved to New York City through the prestigious Mountbatten program, earning a J-1 visa and receiving an internship at Moody's, the financial research company of the World Trade Center.
The city is also where she met her boyfriend. She joked that he is from Northport and is a NYPD police officer “like all Irish Long Island guys.”
I was moved by the message she said she received from her loyal followers, and O'Callaghan is recognized by non-Irish fans.
“The man approached me and he said, 'I'm from North Carolina. I have no Irish heritage at all,” she explained. “But I love your content and I'm learning Irish.”
