Nationality of people from the United Kingdom RE this page Wikipedia Nationality of people from the United Kingdom I m finding the Irsish Northern Irish issue quite hard work I thought your earlier version said the same things as mine just was too technical throughout which is the only reason I swapped mine back I took a while trying to get it simple ie that in brief a NI person can be British dual or Irish regarding their citizenship RE your new edit I don t understand now how all Northern Irish are Irish full stop Surely you need a papers to be a citizen of any country Can you explain it to me here or ideally on the Biography MOS talk page where I made this subsection on Northern Ireland At the moment the words Northern Irish links to this anchor link on Citizenship and identity which talks about an entitlement to claim Irish citizenship If this is about pre Stormont times perhaps that fact can be written in on top of the legal details about dual passports s etc