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    Dia Dhuit!

    I am now officially registered as a citizen of Ireland.


    I've been revising my other languages with the book series Brush Up Your French and Brush Up Your Spanish. Now I'm looking for the book on Irish Gaelic.


    Erin Go Bragh!
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    Are you a rat exiting from a sinking ship?

    My Grandfather's name was Connolly and when he was alive he told us he was born in County Cork but as he also claimed that Maureen (Little Mo) Connolly (for younger forumites - she was quite good at tennis) was a member of our family I'm not sure he can be believed. I'm too old to bother anyway.
    Ah! but a man's reach should exceed his grasp......

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    Welcome aboard

    I hope you appreciate cynicism and the pope
    Some people say he’s the best since Arkle and that’s certainly true when you look at what he’s done

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    A sinking ship, yes.

    A rat? That's for others to decide...
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    Quote Originally Posted by granger View Post
    I hope you appreciate cynicism and the pope
    Excellent, granger. That's two more counts on which I qualify
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    I've been mulling the idea of becoming Irish too i.e applying for an Irish Passport but not sure if I qualify

    My maternal grandmother was born in County Offaly and migrated to England as a teenager in the '20s, then married an Englishman, from which union my mother appeared

    Meanwhile, my paternal grandparents, one Trinidadian the other English, conceived my father at home in sunny Nottingham, only for him to pop out in Dublin whilst they were working and living there for a shortish time. They returned to Nottingham when my father was about 10 months old and he has always had a British Passport

    Do I stand a chance? I mastered blarney years ago

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    If Brexit does go ahead, my next passport is Irish; my dad is Irish, so I will qualify for one.

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    I'm pretty certain you do, Drone.

    I qualify via my mother (born in Scotland) whose father was born in Ireland (Athy) and came here as a young man. My wife qualified via her Scottish parent whose father was born in Northern Ireland.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Drone View Post
    I've been mulling the idea of becoming Irish too i.e applying for an Irish Passport but not sure if I qualify

    My maternal grandmother was born in County Offaly and migrated to England as a teenager in the '20s, then married an Englishman, from which union my mother appeared

    Meanwhile, my paternal grandparents, one Trinidadian the other English, conceived my father at home in sunny Nottingham, only for him to pop out in Dublin whilst they were working and living there for a shortish time. They returned to Nottingham when my father was about 10 months old and he has always had a British Passport

    Do I stand a chance? I mastered blarney years ago
    I hear Offaly was where my old man was from. Myself. Drone, and Barack Obama, all share the Offaly connections and good looks then...

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    Quote Originally Posted by Desert Orchid View Post
    I am now officially registered as a citizen of Ireland.


    I've been revising my other languages with the book series Brush Up Your French and Brush Up Your Spanish. Now I'm looking for the book on Irish Gaelic.


    Erin Go Bragh!


    Ta tu an failte romhat go hEirinn, DO. Muiris O'Neill is anim duit.

    Erin go brea!
    "And still they gazed and still the wonder grew. That one small head could carry all he knew.

    And that small head knew that Impaire Et Passe would win the Champion Hurdle."

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    Go raibh míle maith agat, An Capall.
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    Drone, I reckon you're eligible. There's an intermediate step you'd have to take first before applying for a passport but it doesn't sound that big a deal. Marble and Len, you could apply straight away.

    http://www.citizensinformation.ie/en...r_descent.html

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    Thankyou for this information, Grey. However, My father, I only actually know by name, (Gerry McCormack: Also, I am assured there are thousands of men with this name in Ireland). The only other piece of information I suppose I can believe is where he said he was from, (County Offaly), which he said to my mother, Margaret, back in Islington, in 1985, before he disappeared, after a charmingly brief romance. He never returned or was ever seen again. My mother reports that two fellas in suits knocked on my mum's council flat asking for one, 'Gerry McCormack', shortly after he went missing, but other than that, I know little. Unless someone in The Irish Foreign Office wants to 'hear me out', or 'hear my story', I doubt I can prove a bleeding thing, my friend. Do they accept DNA tests?
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    Knowing he was from Offaly narrows it down. Are there any details about him on your birth cert, e.g. occupation, place or date of birth?

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    Salesman. That's it. Nothing else.
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    I take it your mother never married your father, marble?

    On my birth certificate it says where and when my parents were married.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Desert Orchid View Post
    I take it your mother never married your father, marble?

    On my birth certificate it says where and when my parents were married.
    Yes, that's right,, married twice in her life but not to my biological father. Of the two that she has married, one was Italian, one Welsh. A very European affair, it's fair to say!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Grey View Post
    Drone, I reckon you're eligible. There's an intermediate step you'd have to take first before applying for a passport but it doesn't sound that big a deal.

    http://www.citizensinformation.ie/en...r_descent.html
    Thanks Grey, useful info

    From the Table it looks as though I qualify twice: as a C on my father's side and as a D on my mother's side

    No idea how welcoming other countries are to those with tenuous links to them but the Irish do seem generous with their qualifications for citizenship. Ireland is underpopulated, at least compared with our heaving septic isle, which makes it such a joy to travel around

    This old sod spending his dotage in the Auld Sod: yes, no, but

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