Éditions United Settlement

Lacolle (Qué.) J0J 1J0

Courtesy web site to download or view--

Irish Nationality and Citizenship Acts, 1956, 1986, 1994

in Acrobat *.pdf format

in ASCII *.txt format

source of documentation: UNHCR Geneva REFWORLD

NOTE: the Irish Nationality Bill 1999 will amend the existing law to conform with the Good Friday accord (the Belfast Agreement):

in Acrobat *.pdf format

in ASCII *.txt format

For further details, go to http://www.irlgov.ie/oireachtas/frame.htm and search on "Irish Nationality and Citizenship Act"


See also: the leading European Court of Justice judgment on dual nationality,

Micheletti v. Delegación del Gobierno en Cantabria, [1992] E.C.R. I-4239

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(an Irish, or other EU citizen must be afforded all EU free-circulation and free-establishment, educational, professional and employment rights by every EU member state even if that state would normally not consider the EU nationality his or her "effective" and predominant nationality)


Links to other sites:

http://www.goireland.com/low/visitorsguide/citizen.html
goireland.com - Ireland's National Tourism Service

http://sunsite.unc.edu/gaelic/Eire/7.14.4.html
Irish nationality criteria

http://travel.state.gov/dualnationality.html
U. S. State Department position on dual citizenship

http://www.twoh.com/citizen.htm
How to obtain Irish nationality

http://www.irelandemb.org/fbr.html
Irish nationality by descent information from the Embassy of Ireland

http://www.irlgov.ie/iveagh/embassies/default.asp
Irish embassies and consular offices

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