Irish passport as a Brexit protest

So does it matter what part of Ireland grandparent come from?

Our Son-in-law got his Irish passport (sometime before Covid/lockdowns).
He travels overseas for his job, & thought it may be useful to have, as well as his British one.

DH & I haven't renewed out British ones, as no longer able/wishing to travel outside UK, these past +10+ years.

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It would be interesting to know the increase in demand of EU passports after Brexit
How many of those voted for or against brexit."
Well one of that number is Mr Johnson senior who has just gone for a French passport because his mother was French, he of course voted for Brexit, what a two faced xxx!

I would be applying as a way of flying the European flag and if it means shorter queues at pp control, that would be nice too.
I don't care what the stupid Brexiteers think.
I am very glad to read that so many of you have successfully achieved citizenship.
I have another friend whose mother escaped Nazi Germany who would like a European passport. She's finding it very hard though the law has recently changed and it should be automatic. Unfortunately, many if not most, records were destroyed.

leeds22

One of our DILs voted for Brexit and then got her Irish passport, somewhat hypocritic in my view. I have a great GM from Cork, sadly one removed from my getting an EU passport.

There have been a couple of posts like this and of course we can't blame the sins of the children on the parents. But I am curious as to what reason your DiL gave for doing it.

I don’t understand obtaining one as a protest. Brexiters wouldn’t care! Brexit finally galvanised me into organising mine (I’m half Irish on my father’s side). As for posters saying they don’t see the point. There are a number of points. One is that I can sail through the EU channel when travelling in the EU, instead of standing in long queues with a British passport and if ‘little England’ continues to go to hell in a hand basket, I can move to Ireland and after 4-years of living there with an Irish citizen as a wife, my husband would be entitled to apply for his own citizenship.

My children & grandchildren have all all done this successfully & it has proved advantageous when any of them travels abroad.

One of our DILs voted for Brexit and then got her Irish passport, somewhat hypocritic in my view. I have a great GM from Cork, sadly one removed from my getting an EU passport.

Hubby was born in Dublin, I was born in Belfast. We are entitled to Irish passports but haven't got round to it yet. Recently we travelled to Spain and the people with Irish passports didn't have the long queue that we brits did.

Got mine, both parent born in County Kerry in the 1920's. Both my sisters have expressed an interest but haven't done anything about it yet, I might sort my son out for one.

My application was prompted by Brexit. I haven't used it yet though, got it in September 2017.

I applied in Jan last year for Irish Citizenship still waiting think they have backlog

POBCOB

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.

What on earth does your passport have to do with your family line or heritage? I speak as a keen family historian! Your passport relates to you as a person and should have nothing to do with your family history.

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.

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.

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

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...

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?

Chestnut, no. each country makes its own laws.

sad, the leave vote won get over it

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?

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

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.

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

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.

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 ?