It’s expected after brexit, lots of people have mixed ancestry
Well these applicants are born to Irish parents or grandparents so they are Irish already. They’re just getting the bit of paper to say so.
And 99.99% will only ever use it as a backdoor to the rest of the EU, because it provides little to no benefit to British citizens beyond that
I hear the streets are paved with gold down there. 😍
Brits ~~out~~ in!!
Think of it as a referendum on the best passport to hold
How does this compare to other countries/regions?
Called it years ago – there’ll be English lads on Irish passports going to Poland to work on site in 2030
Foreign Births Register isn’t a citizenship application. It’s for those with an Irish grandparent to register so they can then apply for an Irish passport.
Naturalisation is a different kettle of fish.
Bunch of folks gonna get conscripted into a different army 😂
Standing in the all passports line does things to a person.
There are millions of people with Irish ancestry living in Britain . It was a release valve for our population when ireland had nothing
Boooo!
Well well well
Wondered why the boat from Caergybi (Holyhead) to Dublin was packed like sardines when I saw it..
It’s quite an emotive question and there are some who welcome and some who repudiate. My mum is Irish, she and her siblings all had to come to England in the 50’s and 60’s to find work. This was not unusual in my family as both my uncle and grandmother were born in Manchester where their fathers were working as miners. My dad is half English half Welsh. I was always closer to my Irish family. Spent time there every year. In 2008 I applied to become a citizen and was then able to apply for a passport. It was then a long winded paper based application process, not streamlined and online like now, but I wanted to do it as it was meaningful to me. I’m British but technically also Irish and some will welcome and some never will.
Is anyone else embarrassed by how easy it is to become “Irish”?
This doesn’t include Northern Ireland I guess right? I presume you don’t get included in the Irish Foreign Births Register if you are entitled to a passport due to being born on the island of Ireland. So I would say with unionists claiming passports the numbers could be a lot higher.
I’m from the 2018 spike. As half my family is from Northern Ireland, we’ve always been entitled to both. However, since I grew up in Great Britain, I only held the British passport until Brexit.
Giving the diaspora Irish passports does reinforce a sense of heritage and identity. I’ll be in Ireland next month with my partner to enjoy the culture and history, and who knows? If we love it, we’re definitely open to spend more time in Ireland in the future.
Why is the chart missing pre-Brexit – surely there were some applicants even while in the Eurozone?
This is Fine Gael’s single success, pumping out passports.
As somebody who has no blood connection to Ireland at all, I find it pretty disrespectful – but it’s not illegal and I can understand why people do it. I liked being European, and the benefits it brought.
Standing in a long queue, waiting to get through passport control in the Canaries in January, I was surrounded by my whinging countryment – “it’s so unfair!” – no it’s not, this is what we voted for. I can’t say I made any friends voicing that opinion.
I wonder why there is a dip right after Brexit begins and then a rise afterwards.
Will there kids be eligible for Irish citizenship? Thought it was applicable up to a specific generation.
English Internationals Jude Bellingham and Connor Gallagher used Irish passport rules to sign for their respective clubs as EU citizens.
These lads are making a pretty penny from being “Irish”.
We shouldn’t be handing out passports like sweets on Halloween, an overseas passport for someone who has never paid tax here should be a lot more than €100.
The reality is we are of similar heritage. They are welcome as far as I’m concerned.
Make them add an O’ to their name before giving it to them
Feckin immigrants! *Shakes fists at the sky* muh housing crisis!
The Returning
🙋🏻♂️and I’m very proud to have one
I guess all these new passport owners are in favour of a united Ireland?
Obviously they are using an Irish passport as a tool to live and work in EU unhindered. Why else would you bother when you have the CTA.
There’s something about this that bothers me, probably more than it should. Having recently moved to the UK I’ve met countless amounts of Brits who have got an Irish passport since Brexit just so they can choose to relocate to Spain or Italy etc whenever they wish. I have no problem people doing this if there is a genuine connection to Ireland that has been passed down by parents or grandparents, however many of these people I’ve spoken to have admitted they never set foot in Ireland, and were just using a deceased relative who they hadn’t met to access an Irish passport. Again, it probably shouldn’t bother me, but for some reason conversations like this left me a bit irked
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It’s expected after brexit, lots of people have mixed ancestry
Well these applicants are born to Irish parents or grandparents so they are Irish already. They’re just getting the bit of paper to say so.
And 99.99% will only ever use it as a backdoor to the rest of the EU, because it provides little to no benefit to British citizens beyond that
I hear the streets are paved with gold down there. 😍
Brits ~~out~~ in!!
Think of it as a referendum on the best passport to hold
How does this compare to other countries/regions?
Called it years ago – there’ll be English lads on Irish passports going to Poland to work on site in 2030
Foreign Births Register isn’t a citizenship application. It’s for those with an Irish grandparent to register so they can then apply for an Irish passport.
Naturalisation is a different kettle of fish.
Bunch of folks gonna get conscripted into a different army 😂
Standing in the all passports line does things to a person.
There are millions of people with Irish ancestry living in Britain . It was a release valve for our population when ireland had nothing
Boooo!
Well well well
Wondered why the boat from Caergybi (Holyhead) to Dublin was packed like sardines when I saw it..
It’s quite an emotive question and there are some who welcome and some who repudiate. My mum is Irish, she and her siblings all had to come to England in the 50’s and 60’s to find work. This was not unusual in my family as both my uncle and grandmother were born in Manchester where their fathers were working as miners. My dad is half English half Welsh. I was always closer to my Irish family. Spent time there every year. In 2008 I applied to become a citizen and was then able to apply for a passport. It was then a long winded paper based application process, not streamlined and online like now, but I wanted to do it as it was meaningful to me. I’m British but technically also Irish and some will welcome and some never will.
Is anyone else embarrassed by how easy it is to become “Irish”?
This doesn’t include Northern Ireland I guess right? I presume you don’t get included in the Irish Foreign Births Register if you are entitled to a passport due to being born on the island of Ireland. So I would say with unionists claiming passports the numbers could be a lot higher.
I’m from the 2018 spike. As half my family is from Northern Ireland, we’ve always been entitled to both. However, since I grew up in Great Britain, I only held the British passport until Brexit.
Giving the diaspora Irish passports does reinforce a sense of heritage and identity. I’ll be in Ireland next month with my partner to enjoy the culture and history, and who knows? If we love it, we’re definitely open to spend more time in Ireland in the future.
Why is the chart missing pre-Brexit – surely there were some applicants even while in the Eurozone?
This is Fine Gael’s single success, pumping out passports.
As somebody who has no blood connection to Ireland at all, I find it pretty disrespectful – but it’s not illegal and I can understand why people do it. I liked being European, and the benefits it brought.
Standing in a long queue, waiting to get through passport control in the Canaries in January, I was surrounded by my whinging countryment – “it’s so unfair!” – no it’s not, this is what we voted for. I can’t say I made any friends voicing that opinion.
I wonder why there is a dip right after Brexit begins and then a rise afterwards.
Will there kids be eligible for Irish citizenship? Thought it was applicable up to a specific generation.
English Internationals Jude Bellingham and Connor Gallagher used Irish passport rules to sign for their respective clubs as EU citizens.
These lads are making a pretty penny from being “Irish”.
We shouldn’t be handing out passports like sweets on Halloween, an overseas passport for someone who has never paid tax here should be a lot more than €100.
The reality is we are of similar heritage. They are welcome as far as I’m concerned.
Make them add an O’ to their name before giving it to them
Feckin immigrants! *Shakes fists at the sky* muh housing crisis!
The Returning
🙋🏻♂️and I’m very proud to have one
I guess all these new passport owners are in favour of a united Ireland?
Obviously they are using an Irish passport as a tool to live and work in EU unhindered. Why else would you bother when you have the CTA.
There’s something about this that bothers me, probably more than it should. Having recently moved to the UK I’ve met countless amounts of Brits who have got an Irish passport since Brexit just so they can choose to relocate to Spain or Italy etc whenever they wish. I have no problem people doing this if there is a genuine connection to Ireland that has been passed down by parents or grandparents, however many of these people I’ve spoken to have admitted they never set foot in Ireland, and were just using a deceased relative who they hadn’t met to access an Irish passport. Again, it probably shouldn’t bother me, but for some reason conversations like this left me a bit irked
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