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Accordingly, Irish citizens from the Irish Free State remained British subjects under the prevailing theory of the British nationality law that all subjects within the Empire, including Dominions, held a common Imperial status. [1] Holding citizenship within the Dominions had no effect on possession of the wider British nationality.
The Ireland Act was also used by the United Kingdom to "repair an omission in the British Nationality Act, 1948". [5] The British Nationality Act included provisions dealing specifically with the position of "a person who was a British subject and a citizen of Eire on 31st December, 1948". [5]
The primary law governing nationality of Ireland is the Irish Nationality and Citizenship Act, 1956, which came into force on 17 July 1956. Ireland is a member state of the European Union (EU), and all Irish nationals are EU citizens.
The primary law governing nationality in the United Kingdom is the British Nationality Act 1981, which came into force on 1 January 1983. Regulations apply to the British Islands, which include the UK itself (England, Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland) and the Crown dependencies (Jersey, Guernsey, and the Isle of Man); and the 14 British Overseas Territories.
Since the 1998 Good Friday Agreement, people of Northern Ireland may identify and be accepted as British or Irish, or both, and to hold both British and Irish citizenship. [6] However, a person born in Northern Ireland is automatically a British citizen provided their father or mother is a British citizen or settled in the UK. [7]
[32] [33] This has been used to explain why first-, second- and third-generation immigrants are more likely to describe themselves as British, rather than English, Northern Irish, Scottish or Welsh, because it is an "institutional, inclusive" identity, that can be acquired through naturalisation and British nationality law; the vast majority of ...
The British Nationality and Status of Aliens Act 1914 ... a person who was born in the territory of the future Republic of Ireland as a British subject, ...
In light of these changes, the British state was renamed the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland on 12 April 1927 with the Royal and Parliamentary Titles Act. The modern-day United Kingdom is the same state, that is to say a direct continuation of what remained after the Irish Free State's secession, as opposed to being an ...