An Irish Passport - Might Quell Your Fears - Page 3

So your great-grandford was born in Ireland. Even one of his offspring might have applied along the way for an Irish Passport and received one. Who knows?

I'm informed that there are anomalies where  Irish Passports have been given to people in the UK. It will do you no harm to contact your relatives in Ireland and have them make enquiries for you. You have nothing too lose.

To be honest, I don't know. But, I know the Irish Passport Office is bending over backwards to issue Passports to people from the UK. If you're not in you can't win.

https://www.citizensinformation.ie/en/moving_country/irish_citizenship/foreign_births_register.html
If you were born in another country but you have a grandparent who is Irish you have to register your birth on the foreign births register - it costs €278 to apply so it is not as easy as the original post would indicate. My son who lives in the UK is looking at this and I have to apply through resident/marriage and that is €175 to apply and €950 if accepted

Your spouse and your children do not qualify as you are not resident in Ireland and your children have to go through the foreign births register as outlined above

Thanks for such a useful post - for many of us it is the only means of retaining EU citizenship.

My grandmother was born in NI, but unfortunately was registered as 'girl' - so I am having more problems getting the info together.

Best wishes

katy

Katy

My wife’s fathers birth was not registered in Ireland - she had to register it properly. I think they will help you with that.

Hi, this is what I’m trying to do as my father was Irish but...there is no record of his birth certificate!! So Im taking a trip to Ireland this year to try & get his baptism certificate 🙈...wish me luck 🍀 

Hi I also thought that there was no record of birth for my grandmother but then a friend found the record that just said ‘girl’. Apparently that was common then. I think I’m going to have to prove that it was her by providing copies of census forms where she appears as someone with a name!

Good luck! Let me know how you get on!  My grandmother’s father was a priest so I hope she was baptised!

bw Katy

Just a little more information:- Many Irish births were not recorded prior to the early 1950's. In many cases the recording of a birth was delayed for a year or two. Why? You ask. The payment of Childrens Allowance (automatic Social Welfare Payment) was not introduced until the early 1950's. This accounted for later births being recorded fairly accurately.

https://timeline.ie/%EF%BB%BFfinding-irish-birth-records/

Finding Irish Birth Records Online

There are now plenty of resources for locating Irish birth records online.  The civil birth indexes were initially digitised by volunteers with the Church of the Latter Day Saints and these indexes, which cover the period from 1864 to 1958 only are freely available online at Familysearch.org

This is the same collection that is also available on Ancestry and Findmypast and the same errors and omissions appear on all three sites.   All three sites have also amalgamated collections of baptismal records and the records of civil registration.  It is important to try and distinguish between the two when searching these sites.  

The search function on the familysearch.org site is quite good and takes into account lots of different variant spellings of a surname, so this is the index that I will most frequently use.

However, the Irish government have also published their own index of Irish births, marriages and deaths online at civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie. The birth index on this website dates from 1864 to 1916 and each birth index entry is linked to an image of the original registration.

Hi Katy, I’ve been trying to find more info about my Dads birth, or where he was listed in a Census but... he was born in 1932 & there wasn’t a census or...it was destroyed 😩