re: #1138 Dragon_Lady

I didn’t know that! Unfortunately, my grandparents though of Irish descent were born here. I’m at least fourth generation American on both sided of the family. As much as I’d love to claim my heritage I’m afraid they’d never accept me. Darn it! *sigh*

Oh crap. If one of your parents had registered themselves in the list of foreign births before you were born via the exemptions, you’d already have citizenship. Sorry. :(

re: #1133 Alouette

So Ireland has a “Law of Return” just like Israel.

They seem to do a lot to ensure that people can retain citizenship for forever generationally, anyway. 3 (foriegn born) generations is the cutoff though, unless someone in there is registering as citizens to maintain the continuity. But if you do that, you could in theory maintain citizenship indefinitely in your family, even if no one is born there or even visits there.