Does the line hold? Citizenship by descent, one verdict at a time.
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Irish citizenship by association is a power to waive naturalisation conditions, not a descent route: what section 16 says, who decides, and why it rarely helps.
How to apply for Irish citizenship by descent: the order to assemble the chain in, what the Foreign Births Register fee pays for, and what lengthens the wait.
A grandparent born in Northern Ireland holds an Irish line: section 6 says the island of Ireland, and section 7(2) says their silence does not break yours.
Irish citizenship through a great-grandparent is usually no. It turns on one date: your parent's entry in the Foreign Births Register against your birth.
The Foreign Births Register decides when Irish citizenship begins, not whether you have it: the entry date, the 1986 proviso, and who the timing excludes.
Irish citizenship by descent from a grandparent born in Ireland: the line reaches you, and one register entry decides whether it reaches your children.
If a parent naturalised before you were born, a German, Italian, Canadian or Polish citizenship by descent claim usually ends there. Ireland is the exception.
Can you lose your citizenship before you are born? The seven breaks that end a descent claim in Ireland, Canada, Germany, Italy, Poland and the UK, dated.
Registration, proof, certificate, recognition, confirmation: what a certificate of citizenship by descent is called in each country, and who issues it.
Most claims are a form the register takes from you. Four situations need a citizenship by descent lawyer: a court, a discretion, a restoration, a disputed loss.
How do you know if you have dual citizenship already? In Canada, Germany, Italy and Poland a qualifying line makes you one at birth. Ireland is different.
Whether a grandparent born in Ireland, Canada, Germany, Italy, Poland or the UK passes citizenship by descent to you, and where the answer is stop here.