I'm Irish...

[daveon]

I've been thinking for sometime about sorting out an Irish passport and I've known for a while that in "theory" I'm Irish, it's just nice to have somebody in a position of authority to tell me so. I asked what I needed to get the passport, assuming I'd first need some form of "proof" to be obtained.

"But your father is Irish?"
"Yes."
"Then so are you. Nothing else required."
"Oh, OK."

So all I need to do is get my photo's signed by somebody, probably I'll track down an old family friend from the Garda before TCASU, send off my Dad's birth certificate, his wedding certificate and my documentation and a cheque.

I expected it to be a little more complicated than that.

Comments

[daveon.livejournal.com]

This is a difficult one according to the web site. You'd have to apply for a certificate of citzenship first, I think, unless your father was born before December 1922.

I'm getting one because I'm getting slightly paranoid about all the travelling I've been doing :-/

[marypcb.livejournal.com]

mmm - he might have been. My mum was born in 1920. Shall write and ask him!