Irish Passports?

I meant registering on the Foreign Births Register. You do that before applying for a passport in cases like pp’s. You don’t need to do it if you have an Irish parent who was born in Ireland.
https://www.ireland.ie/en/dfa/citizenship/born-abroad/registering-a-foreign-birth/

Not true, my niece Caoimhe in Galway with a Galway mother and father from NI is pronounced the Qu way as are a lot of Caoimhes from Connemara.

That’s good to know, thanks! Does getting a passport count as ‘registering as an Irish citizen’ or do you need to do something separately?

Yes it can be passed down if OP had registered as an Irish citizen before their births. If she hadn’t done that it couldn’t be passed down.

Can your DCs actually get Irish passports? I understand you got yours via your grandparents but I didn’t think that extended to your DCs given their grandparents are not Irish born?

Sorry, might be just typos, but you’ve spelt three of those names incorrectly. They should be Gráinne, Siobhán and Saoirse.

Saoirse isn’t pronounced with Sur as the first syllable, whatever Saoirse Ronan told people (and she doesn’t pronounce it Sur herself).

The first syllable of Caoimhe isn’t, correctly, pronounced like the start of Queen either. It’s an approximation but the sound in Irish is different. The second syllable isn’t exactly the va in van either.

Sorry to be so picky 🫣

You’ll probably hate me, OP.

I have an Irish passport through grandparents. My parents were not born in Ireland and neither was I. All passed on via registering as an Irish citizen abroad at birth. I have been to Ireland a couple of times.

I will do the same with my children, so we’ll then have 3 generations who haven’t been born in Ireland but who have passports! #sorry not sorry

I don’t see what on earth it has to do with Irish people if my family get Irish passports to enable them to move freely about in Europe. The government sets the rules and we’d be mad not to take advantage of it.

Not automatically but if they can't pronounce them they should have application declined or revoked! Include ability to pronounce the appropriate lead or read in a sentence and correctly read The Chaos and other pronunciation poems. 😂 Bonus entitlement to declare yourself Scottish by fluently reading Burns poetry and pronouncing Milngavie (not the way Google AI does), Ecclefechan and Kirkcudbright.

This is incorrect. If you have a parent born on the island of Ireland you do not need to be registered as a foreign birth. That’s for the next generation who are entitled due to having an Irish grandparent.

FWIW @tyrsta I don't have British citizenship/naturalisation because I never applied. Great Grandfather, his mother and grandmother were all Cork born, like myself. My mother was born in England somewhere (accidentally as grandmother was on holiday when she arrived early), grandmother, great grandmother and great great grandmother all born in Scotland (these are just my living history relatives) and I've lived here over 5 years so fully entitled to UK Passport but have always had an Irish one since childhood.

Doesn't stop me working/paying taxes in Scotland. I do know a few people who applied for their descendant based Irish passports after Brexit though, in spite of voting Yes to ensure British citizens no longer had the same free movement rights.

Does it piss you off that Irish people get other passports? I don’t think the Irish can claim to be disadvantaged here. There are far more Irish diaspora in the rest of the world than in Ireland. It’s a country that has always had people migrating when it suited them and other people using Irish passports because it suits them is no different.
People will do what they need. I have a friend who has an Irish passport and has never been. Like most people it’s to take advantage of EU movement.
Amongst the six million who moved to the UK under EU freedom of movement around 1/3 are third country nationals. Many have never been to their European passport country but have family links there. eg India, Pakistan Nigeria and Brazil, holding ties to Italian, Spanish, or Portuguese family.
Passports will be used in this way. Irish no different.

I got my passport through marriage 28 years ago. Rules have changed since then.

Quee (as in Queen) -va (as in van). Can also pounce Graine, Shiobhan, Aoife, Fionn and Saorise (Sur or See depending on their own pronunciation). I am from Cork.

@tyrsta Was your intention to really find out how many people now have Irish passports because of Brexit, without actually being Irish themselves?

My husband and kids have them - husband born in England and never been there. Kids born in Australia and never been there. They have British, Irish and Australian passports. Irish Granny left for England in the 1950s.
Got them for the kids so they have the freedom to live and work anywhere in Europe

It is Keeva in Ulster Irish and also Connemara Irish.

Only Munster Irish uses the Qu- pronunciation.

That's the thinking of all my DCs (dual Irish/US citizens).

We are all eligible for Canadian citizenship too, via a G Grandparent of mine. I need to do some digging for the papers that will prove descent, and I'm hoping to get the process started soon.

Does this mean that anyone who can figure out how to pronounce though, thought, thorough, trough, rough, drought, dough, cough, bought, plough, and wrought should qualify for a UK passport?

Irish, not living in Ireland. My DCs all have theirs, not born and not living in Ireland.

It isn't some big mystery. It is because people want an EU passport and Ireland doesn't tax it's citizens if they earn outside Ireland. It is one of the more desirable citizenships in the world.

Er the Irish government sets the passport rules. It’s not “so ironic” for people born outside of Ireland to obtain a passport based on their Irish ancestry in accordance with those rules.

You could have opened with that.

Even though I DO visit Ireland regularly, you can’t blame people who have the right to an Irish passport not to jump at the chance to have an EU passport again after the shitshow of Brexit.

Going to funerals isn’t a requirement, ancestry is. And there’s no impact on people living in Ireland, or any additional drain on their resources by people who don’t live in Ireland holding an Irish passport.

A British passport is very handy for getting a working visa in Australia without having to do the regional work.

A is irrelevant at this point.
E is eligible if D is on the FBR at the time of E's birth
F would be eligible if E is on the FBR at the time of F's birth
G would be eligible if...