[Cherie]

Originally Posted by Toy Soldier

My stupid ancestry is all Scottish and you have to go back too many generations to find me Oirish roots (My dad's maternal grandmother was from ROI).

Both of my wife's grandparents on her Mum's side are Irish but I don't know if that's on any use to our kids? ... They also both moved over to England in their 20's and had British passports etc. so I dunno if they even count as properly Irish.

No, it has to be parent or grandparent, If they moved to England in their 20s they were born in Ireland so will have Irish birth certs so your wife would definitely be eligible and maybe then that would stand as the parent with an Irish passport and your kids could get one, I dunno…. no harm in enquiring

[Jessica.]

[arista]

Originally Posted by Jessica.

Perfect for you Jess

[Jessica.]

Originally Posted by arista

Perfect for you Jess

Thank you.

[Livia]

According to Ancestry DNA I am 1% Irish (which is a complete mystery to our family!). Not sure that would be enough for a passport...

My fella has a US passport, he studied here and works here now. He's also worked in mainland Europe. I suppose it all depends on which skills you can offer and luckily his are in demand.

[Cherie]

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/brexi...cid=spartandhp



The number of British citizens applying for Irish passports rose by 22% in 2018, Ireland’s foreign office said on Monday, more than doubling the total of annual applications since Britain voted to leave the European Union.
News, analysis and expert opinion as the UK gets closer to leaving the European Union
Almost 100,000 eligible Britons sought to hang onto their EU citizenship via a passport from their nearest neighbour this year, up from 81,000 last year and 46,000 in 2015, the year before the Brexit vote led to a sharp rise in applications.

[smudgie]

Having never owned a passport, I wonder if I am neutral

[Micky]

Originally Posted by Cherie

So if we leave, will you apply for a passport say is you have an Irish Granny so you can have dual nationality thereby affording easy access to Europe if you want to work?

Nope.

[Cherie]

Remember when people laughed at me