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Fed-Up with Trump and Thinking of Emigrating to Ireland?
If you have even a great-grandparent born in Ireland you are eligible for Irish Citizenship, which is a ticket to the entire EU
RTE news recently ran a segment about the record numbers of U.S. citizens applying to become Irish citizens this year.
If you are a descendant of someone born in Ireland who moved abroad, you are eligible to claim Irish Citizenship, and then apply for an Irish Passport.
‘Descendant’ includes as far back as great-great grandparent in some cases, but always includes a parent or great-grandparent who was Irish.
Éire (Ireland) only became a separate sovereign state in 1922, so if your grandparent or great grandparent was born anywhere on the island of Ireland before 1922, they would have been British, and Irish, in the same way that the Welsh, the Scots and the English are all British today.
Northern Ireland still belongs to Britain. But anyone from Northern Ireland is automatically eligible to become an Irish Citizen.
To claim British citizenship, it has to be through a parent or a grandparent only, never a great- or great-great grandparent. And they don’t make it easy.
