To ask if you have 4 British Grandparents?

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In conversation with friends last night about the perks of still having an EU passport I discovered I was the only one with all 4 Grandparents being British.

DH also has 1 non British Grandparent and now when I really think about it so do a lot of my other friends. I would say the majority have an Irish Grandparent but also Spanish, Indian, Chinese, Polish, Maltese and Italian amongst my close friends.

I recall reading somewhere that 25% of British people could get an Irish passport so I guess I’m now wondering if having all 4 British Grandparents are not being entitled to any other nationality is actually quite uncommon?

They're dead but yes I did, I'm mid fifties though

Yep unfortunately. I would bloody love an Irish passport

I have one British grandparent.

Yes. In fact, everyone I can find in my family history going back at least four generations is determinedly British, to my rather illogical slight disappointment!

I have 2 non Brits and my kids have 3

All 4 British and same with my husband. Properly British with a mix of English, Welsh and Scottish.

I suspect that is the case for the majority. Statistics are always skewed with a small sample size.

Yes, all my grandparents and great-grandparents are British. I don't think it's that rare.

@Highlyflavouredgravy me too 😭

Mine are all gone now but, yes, they were all British. I have to go back as far as my 2 x great grandparents to find any Irish ancestors.

mine are all long gone, but yes all British through and through. My grandmother spent her childhood in Ireland, but was British.

My dad is English and mum is Irish so I have two of each.

Yes, all 4. My grandmother had an Irish grandparent, and was interested in getting an Irish passport, but she voted leave so feels more than a little hypocritical!

I had four British grandparents and all my great grandparents. As far as I know, so do all my friends. We’re early 40s.

Not me. 3 were British. Grandad was Luxembourg born and French/british/german.

Yes, all four British. Family goes back to Irish immigration to Scotland in 1800s but too long ago for passports.

One, but her background was Irish.

I have an Irish and a welsh grandparent. Both born in respective countries . I consider myself British though and I am proud to be so.

I had two Irish Grandparents and two British but from Irish Descent Grandparents.

One grandparent is technically Irish as born in England to Irish parents but not Irish enough for me to get a passport unless my parent had registered as Irish before I was born.

Nope. None of my grandparents is British. DS has two British grandparents. He has dual nationality, too.

All mine are British, as are DH's. Would love to be able to have a EU one - my sister has a Harriet German one by residency, but no such options for me.

I had 4 British grandparents but it didn't stop someone telling me "go home to israel, no one wants you here" when I forgot to take off my Star of David necklace when I used the tube last week.

Yes.... although two Grandparents were born in India during the time of British Rule so had British passports despite being Anglo Indian.

2 Brits and 2 overseas commonwealth country for me. I know DH are all Brits back to an Irish great unsure how many times the great is Grandfather who left in not surprisingly 1846.

Yes, but paternal gps are Northern Irish so I am entitled to an Irish passport.