Irish Passports?

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’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.

What is an NI passport?

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.

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.

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

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.

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 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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Both my children, born in England, got theirs via me being born in Northern Ireland. I applied a few weeks ago and it was issued on Friday which helps with the Freedom of Movement rules in the EU as DH has a British passport. DH could apply as his grandmother was born in Dublin but trying to locate the relevant paperwork is going to be difficult, then he’d need to go on the Foreign Births Registry.

Both myself and my children have British passports too.

I have one, also have a British passport. I was born in Northern Ireland and have entitlement to both.

That’s not correct. My dad is Irish (born in Dublin). I was born in England and am automatically an Irish citizen, entitled to a passport (application currently in the works). I don’t need to be on the foreign births register (indeed I wouldn’t be able to apply).

My DDs are eligible to be on the foreign briths register (and are on it) due to having a grandparent born in Ireland and have Irish passports. As long as each future generation is on the FBR before they have kids then the Irish citizenship can be passed down.

My step daughters were born and raised in England but their Dad (my partner) is Irish. They both voted for Brexit and are now applying for Irish passports because apparently “they didn’t know what they were voting for and weren’t told what they were voting for”. It makes me so angry.

This has made me wonder about my own children's situation. I was born in NI, both my children were born in England. They now hold Irish passports but if they were to become parents, how would it work for their children re getting Irish passports? Are they automatically on the Register of Foreign Births because they have Irish passports? Or do I need to get them on the register now before they become parents (which I hope is many years off as yet!)?

As an Irish person this really pisses me off.

Shame on him.

I’m entitled to one as my dad was born there and moved to the UK in his late teens, so I’m an automatic Irish citizen. Visited all the time when we were young and have been back several times as an adult (I still have lots of family there). One set of grandparents remained in Ireland. The other set were born in Ireland and moved to the UK in the late 50’s. My mum also holds an Irish passport through her parents.

I’ve got as far as getting a copy of my Dad’s birth certificate. I will apply at some point. It does seem like a pain in the bum due to all the required paperwork though.

I was born and grew up in the North of Ireland to one Irish and one EU parent, but I've lived the UK since my twenties. My family roots are in Leitrim but, like many Irish families, people left and settled elsewhere or moved back to a different part of Ireland, so currently my close family live in Ireland in various places but also Spain, Germany, the UK, and the Americas. Because I'm from NI, I have automatic citizenship of Ireland, the UK and my mum's country, and at various times I've held passports for all three. Currently, I have an Irish passport, as do my children. If they have children, they would need to put them on the register of foreign births, and if they live in the UK at that time, those kids will probably feel more British than Irish. My kids already feel that way - because a lot of our family live abroad, visits to Irish family often take place outside Ireland. They might might well live elsewhere, though, at least for the early stage of their careers.

I do have a passport, via the somewhat tenuous route of an Irish-born grandparent and an adoption, really just to make life easier travelling to and staying in EU countries. I haven't been to Ireland, but it isn't a requirement of the process. It's not clear why you're asking, but it was a fairly straightforward process (in my case not needing to go on the Foreign-Births Register) and has been really useful.

It's not automatic for grandchildren. It's a little complicated, when I registered my son I needed a whole pile of original paperwork to prove my mother's irishness. Still need to get my passport which requires slightly less paperwork, must do it this summer!
To correct an earlier poster the register of foreign births is only for grandchildren, not great-grandchildren, so any children my son has will not be eligible.