Irish Passports?

Hmmm interesting topic. I have always wondered why some Irish people get so annoyed at Americans and the like claiming they are Irish. Doesn't bother me at all. The more the merrier I say. And as for passports the government sets the rules and if you are entitled you are entitled.

My English born cousins definitely think they have strong Irish connections and I am not sure if they have Irish passports but if they do they are entitled to them.

I am Irish born and emigrated - like so many Irish people. My DC all have Irish passports.

The Irish system always struck me as a little creepy (and racist).
Its operates a kind of mythological/eugenics-y thinking.
Whereas the British system correctly assumes that it doesnt matter how white you are: if you were born to a Brit who themselves was not born in Britain, theres nothing British about you.

That must be news to Raheem Sterling, Mo Farah and Marc Guehi, then.

I think the Irish government feels a duty to the Irish diaspora. Many Irish people in the past were forced to leave their homes because of desperate circumstances and that hasn’t been forgotten. Emigration has long been a huge thing in Ireland. We are only recently a rich country.

You may jest but boy, you should have seen Irish before it was simplified in the 1950s. For every ‘dhbh’ or ‘mh’ now, there'd have been double those consonants then.
It’s a wonder anyone ever got a letter posted off in time 🤣

What?

I'm Irish, live in Ireland and have both British and Irish passports. My adult children, born in America, also have US ones. I never gave it a thought - I don't make the rules - but there's one thing that really grinds my gears. I have one English son-in-law who has never had a civil word to say about Ireland and the Irish. He actually sat in my house making supercilious remarks about provinicials and their their perceived shortcomings. I didn't miss him and hit the wall (figuratively!) and he never got the chance to do it again. Now, because his children have Irish passports, he's falling over himself to try and claim Irish citizenship, citing a grandmother he kept schtum about hitherto. He has often said how he could never live in this benighted place (he's from Birmingham ffs!) and yet he's making strenuous efforts to get an Irish passport and wondering why he isn't receiving a rapturous welcome. Now I've vented about it here, I'm starting to appreciate the irony a bit more

To be fair this has historically worked both ways, with some Irish people with a strong dislike of anything British happy enough to take advantage of legal entitlements to access British advantages (the NHS would be a good example, or what was once the more vibrant British economy).

Thankfully British people are allowed to claim their Irish nationality (and your son in law is legally no less Irish than you are) despite their contempt for Ireland just the same as Irish people are allowed to work in the UK. If access to these rights depended on political beliefs we'd be in a darker place.

Respectfully, you're the one who is sounding eugenicist. Also, you clearly have no knowledge of how seriously Ireland takes its diaspora, given that colonial policies caused a major humanitarian disaster that saw over a million die and 2 million forced to emigrate between 1845 and 1855, and the economic fallout from that lasted until decades after independence. When large percentages of your country's population has historically found itself forced to emigrate, then obviously those people and their descendants are of concern.

Stop being so bitter and twisted
Is there a limited number of Irish passports or something?
Are they stopping you getting yours?
Is there a I'm the most Irish competition and you feel threatened?

Im half Irish. Move on ✋️

You’ve got a bit of a strange attitude. Maybe that’s why the family members you disapprove of aren’t really involved with you? Their heritage is their heritage though and you making cat’s arse face about which passport they hold won’t change that fact.

This is the most ridiculous thing I’ve ever heard. Giving citizenship rights to grandchildren is creepy and racist?
No, the British way of doing something is not the correct way other than in the UK, shockingly.