Elwyn
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In general, Irish citizenship goes down 2 generations. So if your grandparent was born in Ireland you can claim citizenship. There are hurdles to cross and illegitimacy or lack of satisfactory documentation can kick you into touch. It’s also quite expensive. Total costs are probably near €800 by the time you have bought all the certificates and paid the various fees. But that’s my understanding of the basic situation.
Irish Citizenship doesn’t go beyond 2 generations. Your spouse or your children could acquire it through you, but in general to do so they would have to live in Ireland for a qualifying period. I think that’s at least 3 years but obviously that needs verified with an appropriate Irish authority eg one of their Embassies or the Department of Justice in Dublin. And there may be other rules relating to criminal record etc which might prove an obstacle in specific cases.
There has to be a cut off for people who were neither born in Ireland nor ever lived here, otherwise citizenship could be handed down endlessly from generation to generation. (In the UK it only goes down one generation so Irish law is more generous than the UK’s).
Irish Citizenship doesn’t go beyond 2 generations. Your spouse or your children could acquire it through you, but in general to do so they would have to live in Ireland for a qualifying period. I think that’s at least 3 years but obviously that needs verified with an appropriate Irish authority eg one of their Embassies or the Department of Justice in Dublin. And there may be other rules relating to criminal record etc which might prove an obstacle in specific cases.
There has to be a cut off for people who were neither born in Ireland nor ever lived here, otherwise citizenship could be handed down endlessly from generation to generation. (In the UK it only goes down one generation so Irish law is more generous than the UK’s).