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

[marypcb.livejournal.com]

what counts as 'Irish' for the purpose? My father is from Belfast, though he moved to England long ago; would it be where he was born? Or if he has an Irish passpport himself? I've always thought it would be fun to get an Irish passport myself (Dorothy L Sayers: there's no-one as offensively mongrel as the English)

[del-c.livejournal.com]

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

For a second there I thought you meant you didn't have to prove your dad was Irish, just assert it. The next paragraph with your dad's birth certificate restored my sense of reality :-)

[pmcray.livejournal.com]

My brother has an Irish passport. I'll talk to him about it when I see him tomorrow. It involved sending my dad's birth certificate off, if I recall correctly.