Irish Passports?

Unless you were born on the island of Ireland or were on the foreign births register yourself before your children were born, your citizenship will not pass down to them.

Just making out the V sound from those consonants should qualify a person as Irish! 🤣

I should add, I think you’d still need the ETIAS, but there will be a box to tick stating that you’re a family member accompanying an EU citizen. You’d need to carry proof of the relationship though, and perhaps a copy of the relevant EU directive would be prudent.

https://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etudes/BRIE/2024/762303/EPRS_BRI(2024)762303_EN.pdf

https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=celex%3A32004L0038

Oi; watch it, like!

I do, I was born in Cork and moved to England as a teenager. I don’t have a UK passport. My children have both. I visit Ireland all of the time, 8 or 9 times a year

Hang on…isn’t DH British though? (I really do apologise if I’m being very dense, as I’m not firing on even half my cylinders today)

If so, he’s covered in terms of freedom to live and work in Ireland by the CTA from long before anyone dreamed of a European Union. No paperwork necessary bar his UK passport.
He can retire here as easily as his Irish wife can, and his pension is easily transferred. He can of course acquire citizenship too, by living in Ireland with his wife for three years.
(He can also go it alone like any British citizen, and that requires five years’ residence)

Disregard the foregoing if DH is in fact Belgian, or Maltese!

🤣🤣🤣

I have Irish citizenship; not the passport yet. I got it after Brexit. I've been to Eire once and Northern Ireland once. I also never knew my Irish grandfather; he died years before I was born.

Most Irish people I've mentioned it to have been mildly amused and generally welcoming about it. I'm not claiming cultural Irishness, just citizen rights that I'm entitled to. My main motivation was making sure DC could apply for the same and retain EU freedom of movement.

I do. Currently live in Northern Ireland but born in England and mum is Irish. Will return to GB at some point and keep the passport. Why are you asking?

I wouldn't expect any better from someone from Cork! (Insert roll eye emoji here)

Sometimes it is, apparently! Caoiminh Kelleher uses the 'Kee-vin' pronunciation rather than the 'Quee-vin' that English commentators tend to use.

Can you pronounce Caoimhe? And no, it is not Keeva!

My parents were born in Ireland, so I could have one, but don’t.

One of our sons does have one as well as a British passport. He’s neve been to Ireland.

Yes, I got mine after Brexit. Never been to Ireland ( it’s on my bucket list) but my dad was adopted by an Irish couple which is how I was able to go on the foreign birth register.

Many people would be surprised by the number of virulently anti-Nationalist Assembly members and other assorted Unionists who claimed theirs too,
post-GFA.
But these Irish people, ‘naturally Irish’ I would hope, according to OP’s cryptic words, are the fellow countrymen the rest of Ireland must embrace as family before reunification of the country can come about.
(This, after all, is the historic aim of the nation, though it’s no longer stated in mixed company, post GFA. The nation’s official name is Ireland, not ‘the Republic of Ireland’, which is a bit of a giveaway!)

The recent fabulous Fleadh (all-Ireland music festival) in Belfast showed us how all this embracing and merging can begin, perhaps. Or rather, can continue!
It was after all those famous N.I. men, the late Martin McGuinness and the Rev. Ian Paisley, who amazed the whole Universe with their genuine Damascene rejection of lifelong implacable opposition, becoming a byword for bubbling good humour.

[I reckon ex-British military eligible through ancestry could be contrasted with the stereotypical ‘never left the States’ Bostonian grandson of what he surely calls ‘Éire’, who thinks Ireland is still the Catholic land of De Valera (and should remain so) and who continues to funnel material support to the present generation of gangsters in the North in the name of some imaginary motherland he would seek to change in every respect if he ever set foot here!]

rant ends

Gawd knows where all that came from, unless it’s all the coffee I’m inhaling as medicine.

There’s something particularly shameful about having served as a British soldier in Northern Ireland, enforcing British sovereignty over a territory created through partition, and then decades later securing an Irish passport when Irish citizenship suddenly becomes useful.

Thank you. That’s really good to know. A few years get down the line but thought he’d be restricted by the 90/180 rule.

An EU citizen’s spouse can accompany them, so it’s maybe not as restrictive as you think. Family members can apply for a residence card.

Also, as long as you’re not travelling to the EU citizen’s home country, the spouse may be exempt from the ETIAS (when it comes in) and the 90/180 rule is different.

europa.eu/youreurope/citizens/travel/entry-exit/non-eu-family/index_en.htm

This is correct - free movement extends to non-EU Family Members of the EU national, as long as they are moving with her, on the basis that free movement would not be much use of you couldn't take your family along.

Why do you want to know, OP?
My DH as one. He spent every summer as a child in Ireland. My DCs will get them at some point. They’ve been once but are very keen to spend some time there.

How will it limit your retirement plans? I thought as the spouse of an EU resident you get the same benefits as them?

No none.

I do, I waa born in Ireland.
I visit regularly.
You?

Im irish so have an irish passport. You hear a lot online about people wanting irish passports. My sons are half English as dh is english. Are there advantages to them having a British passport?

Chat GPT is good for this..... You are automatically an Irish citizen through your father, so your application is the same as an Irish resident citizen applying for the first time.

Required Documents to Mail
After completing the digital form, you must post your original civil documents to the Passport Service in Ireland. Photostatic copies are not accepted unless specified below: 1, 2, 3]

• Your full UK birth certificate showing your parents' details.
• Your father’s full Irish birth certificate.
• Your parents' marriage certificate, if applicable.
• A certified colour photocopy of your British passport (the witness who signs your identity verification form must certify this copy).
• Two original proofs of address (e.g., a utility bill, bank statement, or official government letter matching your name and address). 1, 2]

Steps to Apply From the UK

1. Take a digital photo: You can do this at home using a smartphone or at a retail photo booth that provides a digital code. 1, 2]
2. Fill out the online application: Access the DFA Passport Online portal. Select "First-time adult applicant" living in Great Britain. 1]
3. Pay the fee: The standard fee for an adult first-time passport is €75 (plus a €15 international postal fee, totaling €90). 1]
4. Print and witness: Print the tracking page and the Identity Verification Form generated at the end. This form must be signed and stamped by an authorized witness (such as a doctor, lawyer, school principal, or police officer) who knows you or can verify your identity. 1, 2]
5. Post the documents: Mail your printed forms, certified ID copy, and original certificates to the Dublin address provided on your application printout. 1, 2]

https://www.ireland.ie/en/dfa/passports/how-to-apply-for-a-passport/