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The Twenty-seventh Amendment of the Constitution Act 2004 (previously bill no. 15 of 2004) amended the Constitution of Ireland to limit the constitutional right to Irish citizenship of individuals born on the island of Ireland to the children of at least one Irish citizen and the children of at least one parent who is, at the time of the birth, entitled to Irish citizenship.
The Irish Nationality and Citizenship Act 2004 amended citizenship law to remove the entitlement to citizenship from those born on the island of Ireland who did not have an Irish-citizen parent, or whose parents had not lived in Ireland for three of the previous four years. This law was commenced on 1 January 2005.
The 1956 Irish Nationality and Citizenship Act, which replaced the earlier 1935 Act, expanded the available pathways to citizenship and allowed more situations to retain it. Restrictions on holding multiple nationalities were repealed and any Irish citizen who acquired another nationality no longer automatically lost their Irish citizenship.
Separately from this right, the Irish minister responsible for immigration may dispense with conditions of naturalisation to grant nationality to an applicant who "is of Irish descent or Irish associations," under section 15 of the Irish Nationality and Citizenship Act, 1986. With rare exceptions the applicant must be resident in the island of ...
15 December – The Irish Nationality and Citizenship Act 2004 was enacted. Inter alia, this provided that children born of most foreign national parents on the island of Ireland were no longer automatically entitled to Irish citizenship. [7] [8] [9]
Interim DUP leader Gavin Robinson’s Bill would allow Irish people to acquire British citizenship by registration after five years’ residence.
Bhutanese Citizenship Act 1958; Bhutanese Citizenship Act 1985; Canada: Canadian Citizenship Act, 1946; Canadian Citizenship Act, 1977; India: Citizenship Act, 1955; Ireland: there have been several Irish Nationality and Citizenship Acts in Irish nationality law; New Zealand: British Nationality and New Zealand Citizenship Act 1948
The system of citizenship registration was established by the Irish Nationality and Citizenship Act, 1956. [2] A person born outside Ireland to an Irish-citizen parent who was also born outside Ireland may acquire Irish citizenship by registering onto the Foreign Births Register or a Foreign Births Entry Book. [3]