Irish Passport - Living in UK

I've been wanting to apply for an Irish passport for a while now but I can't find any of my Granda's papers to prove he was an Irish citizen, doesn't look like ha had a birth certificate or anything. Basically, it's pretty hard to prove he existed before the age of about 10.

 

You got a death certificate or marriage lines?

 

http://www.births-marriages-deaths.ie/birth-certificate.asp
Try this website

 

So I can get an Irish passport because my granny's Irish? That'll mean I can have a British Scottish or Irish one. Good to have options.

 

Yes, but as you'd be doing it through a grandparent, you'd have to first register as an Irish citizen, then travel to Dublin with all your grandparent's documentation and pay about £300 in total (or there abouts) to get a passport.

 

* that! :smiley-laughing002: I like the idea of having an Irish passport but that's just too much effort/money.

 

Last time I checked it would cost 100 euro to switch from being a brit to being Irish, which I can do because I have Irish grandparents. I,m currently holding out for Scottish independence, if that fails I,ll bcome a paddy.

Whatever happens I definitely wont be a brit, this time next year. :icon_mrgreen: ​

 

I never get the theory that you'll be treated better abroad with an Irish passport.

Surely you show you passport once at immigration, maybe again at a hotel, and then put it away?

How you get treated abroad will depend on where you go and how much of a * you are.

 

When you're buying alcohol,trying to get into clubs etc

I remember showing my passport in Berlin,bouncer turned round to his colleague and made a comment about 'Englander',I quickly said no I'm Scottish,he smiled and shook my hand and let me in.

 

So, when Scotland becomes independent i can have dual Scottish/Irish citizenship as i am Scottish and father is Irish.

Best of both worlds.

 

Sign up to Scotland people website. Input your details (you have to pay to use this service) then search for your birth certificate. This will give details for your parents (if you know them :icon_mrgreen then search for their births which should give details of grandparents. Then just check them as well.

Simples.

 

Travel back to Ireland in your time machine(before 2004) get born. Then travel forward again in your time machine to the present day. Apply for an Irish passport as someone born in Ireland.


Sent from my time machine sometime in the future via tap a talk

 

:smiley-laughing002:

If i was an evil * and kidnapped someone, I think the Irish passport, non-Irish accent and British residency would make you out to be a spy or undercover and you'd be a goner :icon_mrgreen:

 

Done all that, although my Granda was born in Ireland there doesnt seem to be any records to prove it. None of the records that do exist have any reference to his place of birth or the fact that he was Irish.

Not even on his death certificate doe it mention his place of birth. I'm beginning to think he was a dodgy *, seemed to have floated in and out of official existence until he was old.

Suppose I could go for Norwegian citizenship on the other side but don't really speak the language so I'd need to swot up first and I really can't be arsed

 

I always thought having a British passport abroad made things less complicated with immigration and embassies etc. ?

 

Pretty much what I have found. Occasionally you need to explain being Scottish and that makes it better :icon_mrgreen:
I guess I am entitled to an Irish passport as Dad is from Donegal, but its not something I have ever thought about having/applying for. I don't see the point I was born in Scotland so its a UK passport for me. (for now)

 

Everyone wants to be Irish :smiley-laughing002:

 

But you're Northern Irish...

 

Still Irish dont ye know.