Irish passport

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Has anyone on here , in England with an Irish grandparent applied for one?
Can you let me know where to begin please?

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Does anyone know what the story is re sending off original passports, do they need to see the original U.K. passport or certified copies? My DS and I qualify due to my Irish grandparents and my parents but I'm worried we could end up with no passports for a while if they need our originals

I sent off a copy that was certified by the person who signed my application.

That's a completely mad argument.

Brexit is the responsibility of the British people! Yes, what happened is unfair on those who didn't want it, but that's not the fault of another country. Ireland bears no responsibility for those who don't qualify as Irish citizens, whether they're happy or othewise following Brexit isn't a consideration.
How can you think otherwise?

@Lakeshorelilac
It's not just that, it's also a mad argument in the sense that voting to remain doesn't automatically make you worthy of getting an Irish passport. Like what's the link? 😄

My DH would would have liked to get his Irish passport through his grandfather, but unfortunately could not trace his birth records, (born in Cork with a very common name). He has just had his DNA ancestry results back and he is 55% Irish, (45% from 1 parent and 10% from the other). Some consolation I suppose!

I actually wondered @Dahliasrule how they linked up all the records from birth, marriage and death, I wondered whether I could have just found similar names where the dates matched! My GF had gained a name between birth and death, which I worried might affect the application but it didn't, maybe a confirmation name.

@Dahliasrule Do you have any contacts at all in the locality his family came from? Someone older with local knowledge of townland /village names would probably be able to help you locate it, unless it's very far back?
If not, it could be worth approaching the local parish; if they could find a baptismal record for you, you could match it up with a birth record.

Unfortunately not. His grandfather left his family when DH’s mother was very young.

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I am going to send off for DH’s grandfather’s marriage certificate (England) as it should show where grandfather’s father and mother and were born so that might be a start.

@MurielThrockmorton can I ask a question on how you got yours certified. We have a doctor friend who is willing to do it but struggling with the stamp / headed paper/business card She has a stamp with her GMC number on but not address of hospital. How did you do it?

Good luck!
If he was alive and in Ireland in 1901 or 1911, you may find him on the census; both those years are freely available on census.nationalarchives.ie.

@Puravida23 a teacher friend did it on school headed notepaper, she got the electronic version then just printed it. When I first tried to apply the list was incredibly restrictive, E.g. head teacher not just any teacher, bank manager (who has one of those?) - fortunately they relaxed it, otherwise I would have been stuck.

I think the Irish rules are lax also. The grandparent rule Ireland has doesn’t apply in the UK.

I did this for my daughter. Takes a long time but we just got notarised copies of any UK ID that she needed to supply to get her on the FBR. Once she was on the FBR it was straight forward to get her passport.

There are a number of countries that allow citizenship via grandparents and others, like the UK, which used to but don't know.

DD and I also qualify for citizenship of a third country by the parents/grandparents rule but we figured 2 was enough.

*don't now not "don't know"