Almost a quarter of a million people living in the UK applied for an Irish passport last year, the highest number since the UK formally left the European Union.
And it would be even higher if they didn’t require people’s parent/grandparent to have registered an Irish ‘foreign birth’ before they died. Being Irish was stigmatised in the UK until a few decades ago so people often didn’t.
And it would be even higher if they didn’t require people’s parent/grandparent to have registered an Irish ‘foreign birth’ before they died. Being Irish was stigmatised in the UK until a few decades ago so people often didn’t.