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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 distinction between the meaning of the terms citizenship and nationality is not always clear in the English language and differs by country. Generally, nationality refers to a person's legal belonging to a sovereign state and is the common term used in international treaties when addressing members of a country, while citizenship usually means the set of rights and duties a person has in ...
However, it has been argued that "the new Article 2 of the Irish constitution gave northern nationalists nothing". [2] After all, Article 9 of the Constitution of Ireland governs Irish citizenship. [2] It provides that the "future loss and acquisition of Irish nationality and citizenship shall be determined in accordance with law". [3]
Under section 5 of the act, a person who was born in the territory of the future Republic of Ireland as a British subject, but who did not receive Irish citizenship under the act's interpretation of either the 1922 Irish constitution or the 1935 Irish Nationality and Citizenship Act (because he or she was no longer domiciled in the Republic on ...
Citizenship; Citizenship (Acquisition of); lus soli; Minor; Residence Permit Sulaimon v Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform [2012] IESC 63; [ 1 ] was an Irish Supreme Court case which upheld a judgment of the High Court which had previously quashed the decision of the appellant in this case, the Minister for Justice and Equality on ...
The programme agreed by the Fine Gael–independent minority government formed after the 2016 election included this commitment: [13]. We will establish a Citizens' Assembly, within six months, and without participation by politicians, and with a mandate to look at a limited number of key issues over an extended time period.
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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 ]