Irish Passports?

I do and yes, even went to school there for a very short bit as a kid. My mother was Irish and we used to visit almost every year as a young child. I’ve only bothered to get an Irish passport due to Brexit though. My kids have filed for foreign birth registry and will get passports eventually. Long process for that.

I've got an Irish and UK passport. I was born in England but both parents are from Ireland but lived in England over 40 years for work. We go over multiple times a year to see family.

my late mother was Irish. Born and bred although she married an Englishman. I have an Irish passport and am very proud of my Irish heritage. I go there every year or 2 and am close to most of my many cousins. My 2 DSs also have Irish passports through the Register of Foreign Births. They’ve been to Ireland several times.

Working in NI as part of the army during the troubles but then claiming an Irish passport is an interesting choice.

I’m going to do it through the grandparent route once my current UK one expires. Have never lived there and neither did my parent but for work opportunities it could be a bonus as it’s a big growth area for us at the moment.

I do, having been born there though no longer living there. Glad that as it stands both my children and any grandchildren I may have will also be eligible due to that fact. DH can register as a foreign birth due to an Irish granny but hasn’t yet.

Yes, through an Irish Grandparent. I had to get myself on the foreign birth register as my parent was born in the UK. Expensive and time consuming to an extent, but worth it in my eyes for obvious reasons post Brexit.

And yes. I have visited numerous times. I have a sibling who lives there and we were all bought up to be very proud of the Irish heritage we inherited. I love the country and my Grandparent was so proud to be Irish it makes me happy I can carry on their nationality.

I won't lie, Brexit was the main factor in me doing it though. The nice feeling of carrying on their nationality is a lovely bonus.

I have one (and British). Born in NI, lived through the troubles and left there aged 30 to come to England. Kids have them via me and we do go back. NI is great. Husband is English so doesn’t have one but we may retire to NI so possibly would get one eventually.

Me, both parents are from ROI and live there as do all my extended family. I was born here.

Currently applying. Never been there and most likely won’t but I want an EU passport. It is a long process but I’m getting there with it.

I have an Irish passport. I live in Ireland but wasn’t born there.
I have the passport from where I was born.
I am also entitled to a British passport but have never bothered getting one.

What is an NI passport?

I’ve got in as my Dad is from Northern Ireland. Never been to ROI. Been to NI loads (which I love). If you can get your kids an NI passport you should. It’s vital if they want to live and work in the EU and lets them access free university overseas.

My husband has an Irish passport. He wasn’t born there and hasn’t been there since he was in the army during the troubles.

I have one. Born to Irish parents in the UK, but moved to Ireland as a teen and married an Irish born man.

My children, all US born also have Irish passports. They just had to apply as their dad was born in Ireland.

living in the US right now, we need options!!

Have one due to an Irish parent born in Ireland. I feel very fortunate to hold a passport, especially these days. And yes spent a lot of time in Ireland when I was growing up. I've had mine since before Brexit caused a lot of people to get one but I can't remember it being difficult to obtain.

If you have a parent born in NI who hasn’t got an Irish passport their children, even if born overseas, can be Irish and get an Irish passport without the foreign births register. The parent born on the island of Ireland does not need to exercise their own right to an Irish passport for their children to obtain one.

I have held British, Irish and Australian passports. I am entitled to the first two by birth as I am from NI, I have also lived in the south. I am now an Aussie citizen though, and wish it was legal to sell my other passports as I don’t need them!

I think there’s a flaw there tbh, but got terribly tangled up explaining why, so can I piggyback on your comment and refer people interested to an excellent resource on Reddit (wash my mouth out with soap):

Check out the pinned citizenship eligibility chart on r/Irishcitizenship

I have a passport by virtue of my Irish dad. But I was born outside Ireland and only visited once as a young child. I probably have buckets of family there but don’t know them, so no meaningful connection to the country really other than being a citizen. I’d like to get to know the country better someday and introduce it to my DC (who also has a passport thanks to our ancestry)

Oh, not at all, at all! You were indeed born Irish, through ‘jus solis’, since the GFA.
It’s just that for now, you have to actually assert it officially, as opposed to your not needing to actually claim a British identity.
(This has an impact on any children born to you abroad: you must be officially an Irish citizen in order to pass that to them directly.)
You know all this of course. I’m just blathering

Both DH’s parents were Irish born and migrated to England while they were young for work.( His father fought for Britain during WWII. In fact his father was born in 1912, before Ireland’s independence from Britain. )
DH was brought up in an Irish community in London, went to Catholic schools, all his friends were part of that community. He used to spend all his summer holidays from school with family in Ireland.
He has always considered himself Irish and has an Irish passport rather than a British one. I supposed London Irish best describes him.

Our DS is also very proud of his Irish ancestry. But he has lived and worked in different EU countries, so his Irish passport is essential for him to be able to do that easily. I would say he considers himself European these days.

So a long winded way or saying that you do have an automatic right to Irish citizenship if your parents were born on the Island of Ireland but if you were not born on the Island, you need to register as a foreign birth.

Yes, but the point I was trying to make (not very well, I accept) was it depends how your parents got Irish citizenship. If they were born in England and got it automatically through their parents being born in Ireland, they have to be on the register for their English born children to get citizenship. They will get it automatically with Irish born parents but their non Irish born children will not unless their parents were on the register. And you have to be on the register before your children are born. You can't do it retrospectively.

I have, and yeah, I live here (there).
Born in London; parents immigrated around 1950. Quit GB on my own in the late ‘80s.
I’m in no doubt as to my right to regard myself as Irish, by any metric, but I still regard England as my ‘parallel’ home, though I rarely visit. More a case of my keeping an eye on the old sod.
I reckon I’m fortunate to have that additional turf.