Irish passport as a Brexit protest

Yes, we keep meaning to do this! Thanks for the reminder....

Applied to be added to the register of overseas births Sept 2016. Received my birth certificate from that in June 2017, and then applied for passport, which took 8 weeks.

I’m not just a passport Paddy. I’d been planning to do it for ages, but tracking down my Granny’s records was complicated by family issues.

I'm astonished to read all this. I thought you could only apply for a passport for the country in which you were born.

I applied immediately after the referendum, as my mother was born in Ireland.

The grandparent rule applies to footballers who can play on an Irish team if they have Irish ancestry.

You are permitted to have 'dual nationality' if also a UK passport holder but I do not think this applies to Irish status?

I am entitled to both by virtue of grandparent/parents place of birth and where I was born. The UK passport used to be the cheaper one and quicker to get but not any more.

Republic of Ireland does allow more than one passport

JackyB
My paternal grandfather was Irish - from the North but as he was born before 1922 that is presumably irrelevant,

it doesn't matter when or which part of ireland.

Waiting for mine to come, thanks to an Irish grandmother

I applied for my Irish passport (father Irish) the day after the leave vote in 2016. I most certainly did NOT vote leave.....I agree maybe those who voted leave should at the very least have their application questioned! .

Chestnut If you have a parent ( not grandparent) born on the island of Ireland before 2005 you are automatically an Irish citizen and therefore able to apply for a passport.
As a grandchild you have to apply to become a citizen via the foreign births register first.
It’s a simple process.

I'm not vindictive just sad that so many rejected the EU. They were taken in by the propogands and Dominic Cummings' mantra take back control which is meaningless.

My neighbour has done this, and definitely as a Brexit protest.
I have been very tempted to to it myself, as a had an Irish grandmother.

I am the only one in my family that can’t get an Irish passport!
I thought my dad had been born here , but no , and his dad was born in Glasgow as was myself . My Northern Irish roots are way too far back , but my Children and Grandchildren all have Irish passports as OH was born here from a long line of Irish people
DD2 found her PP handy this year coming and going to Paris
If Scotland ever separated and returned to the EU I would get a Scottish PP ?

I got my passport in 2019 because I wanted to remain a EU citizen. (I may never go to live in Italy, but I can!)
It's cheaper than a UK passport (if you don't have to go through the foreign birth process) and it does no harm to travel under the flag of a country that has never invaded anywhere else.
The small branch of Timpson's on the south coast where I had my passport photograph taken said that in normal times they did about one a month for a non-UK passport. When I went they were doing about 20 a month. I presume that pattern was repeated across the country.

My friends and children, who all voted for Brexit, applied and received their Irish passports.

yes, my cousin got hers long before brexit, for security reasons. just in case. it can be safer to be aligned with a neutral country. she carries both.

i don't go anywhere so don't have a passport.
used to go to ireland but didn't need a passport.

Sago

Chestnut If you have a parent ( not grandparent) born on the island of Ireland before 2005 you are automatically an Irish citizen and therefore able to apply for a passport.
As a grandchild you have to apply to become a citizen via the foreign births register first.
It’s a simple process.

Well I get that, but as I was born in England over 70 years ago it would seem quite wrong to apply for a passport for another country just because my mother was born there over 100 years ago. Does this apply to all countries?

sad, the leave vote won get over it

Chestnut, no. each country makes its own laws.

My FiL was a citizen of Northern Ireland, although he was born in India. Both his parents were born in Belfast. Now my daughter has decided she wants to apply for an Irish passport. So far, so good. However, FiL never had a birth certificate, and when it was found later that this had been omitted (he applied for a passport which always was a bit of a faff for him), the register office in the place he was born had burnt down, all records being destroyed. He died decades ago. Would there be a possible way around this for my daughter?

I got mine just before Brexit both parents born on the island of Ireland. My daughter applied and is now on the born abroad register so now getting her Irish passport. Interesting that her daughter who is newborn can now apply, but her son who was born before she was added to the born abroad register is not eligible...

Our younger son lives and works in Ireland and has applied but Covid has slowed everything down! His paternal GF was born in what is now Northern Ireland but before that happened so he qualifies. He is doing it because Brexit might make it difficult for him to carry on working there

It’s not all about Brexit but about ancestry and continuing the long Irish heritage that some people have. I was British and Irish from the moment I was born and did not wait for a situation such as Brexit to come along to prove it. Whatever you see as privileges that rightly belong to me will not be surrendered because of the Brexit vote but will continue along my family line hopefully for many generations to come. Not everyone jumped on the Brexit wagon to gain an additional European passport but if they did then they must also have had the right to do so.

We never had any trouble travelling through Europe and neither of us have British passports. They just waved us through every time, including Eastern Europe.