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Claim: More than 700,000 people born in Northern Ireland have an Irish passport. (BBC Northern Ireland, 2021-01-29)
Evidence (2022-12-09): It is true that the number of people born in the Republic of Ireland and living in England and Wales in 2021 at 324,670 marks a decrease of over 82,687 (or around 20%) compared to the 2011 Census. Likewise, the number of those born in Northern Ireland went from 214,988 to 198,344. This significant change has occurred against an overall increase of the non-UK born population, which has risen from 7.5 million in 2011 to 10 million in 2021 (+33%). [...] But focusing only on data about 'country of birth' can lead to a simplistic reading of the wider picture. When you bring together also the statistics on citizenship, national identity, and ethnicity, new layers are added to the story. Take, for example, the Census data on ‘passport held’. In 2021, there were 364,725 people living in England and Wales and holding a passport issued by the Republic of Ireland. This number represents only a very small reduction (-2.1%) when compared to the 2011 Census (372,389) and is nearly compensating the reduction of those who are Irish ‘by birth’. A Brexit effect seems to be at play here, where people who previously held a British passport have applied for an Irish one, thanks to family links. Even ahead of the 2016 UK referendum to leave the EU, Ireland's Department for Foreign Affairs had reported unprecedented numbers of applications. A pragmatic choice, maybe, but it has also represented an occasion for many to embrace their Irish heritage in the post-Brexit landscape.
Claim: More than 700,000 people born in Northern Ireland have an Irish passport. (BBC Northern Ireland, 2021-01-29)
Evidence (2019-03-09): The most recent wave of economic emigrants from Ireland post-2008 was no exception. Since 2008, 165,100 people have moved from Ireland to the UK, more than Australia and Canada combined. (The UK includes Northern Ireland but "Irish-born" in this case refers only to people born in the Republic.) [...] In the most recent census in 2011, 430,309 people living in Britain identified themselves as Irish-born, down 37 per cent from a peak of 683,000 in 1961. The Annual Population Survey carried out by the Office of National Statistics (ONS) in 2018 put the Irish-born population for the UK at just 380,000. [...] Of the 149,000 Irish-born people employed in the UK in this same period, one in three was working in the public administration, education and health sector. One in five worked in banking and finance, followed by construction and hospitality.
Claim: More than 700,000 people born in Northern Ireland have an Irish passport. (BBC Northern Ireland, 2021-01-29)
Evidence (2022-11-02): The data from the 2021 shows a significant reduction of people born in Ireland in comparison to the previous 2011 Census. In particular, the number of people born in Ireland and living in England and Wales in 2021 was 523,014 (that is about 1 percent of the total resident population). Of these, 324,670 were born in the Republic of Ireland and 198,344 were born in Northern Ireland. [...] This represents a decrease of over 99,000 people (-16 percent) since a decade ago, when the Irish-born population totalled 622,345 (of which 407,357 were born in the Republic of Ireland). [...] In addition to ‘country of birth’, since 2011 the Census has also collected data on ‘passports held’; these data tell a different part of the story. In 2021, there were 364,725 people living in England and Wales and holding a passport issued by the Republic of Ireland. This number represents only a small reduction (-2.1 percent) when compared to the 2011 Census (372,389).
Claim: More than 700,000 people born in Northern Ireland have an Irish passport. (BBC Northern Ireland, 2021-01-29)
Evidence (2024-10-08): All estimates are likely to be revised within the next year as new data becomes available and improvements to estimates of international migration continue to be made, the ONS added. [...] This was the highest rate of annual growth for England, Wales and Scotland since comparable data began in 1971, while for Northern Ireland it was the highest since mid-2019. [...] By contrast, England saw slightly more births (570,700) than deaths (560,900), as did Northern Ireland (20,100 births, 17,600 deaths).
Claim: More than 700,000 people born in Northern Ireland have an Irish passport. (BBC Northern Ireland, 2021-01-29)
Evidence (2024-10-06): More than 1,400 adults from the Republic and Northern Ireland completed the survey early last month.
Claim: More than 700,000 people born in Northern Ireland have an Irish passport. (BBC Northern Ireland, 2021-01-29)
Evidence (2023-08-03): If you were born in Northern Ireland before 1 January 2005, you are entitled to claim Irish citizenship. This means that you can choose to be an Irish citizen and apply for an Irish passport if you want to. [...] If either of your parents was an Irish or UK citizen at the time of your birth, you are automatically an Irish citizen if you were born in Ireland. If you were born in Northern Ireland to an Irish or British parent, you can choose to be an Irish citizen. [...] If you were born in Ireland on or after 1 January 2005 and neither of your parents were Irish or UK citizens, your entitlement to Irish citizenship by birth depends on your parents’ residence status and history.
Claim: More than 700,000 people born in Northern Ireland have an Irish passport. (BBC Northern Ireland, 2021-01-29)
Evidence (2024-06-19): - Anyone born in Ireland was automatically an Irish citizen. People who were born in Northern Ireland were entitled to be Irish citizens if they chose it. [...] The Irish Nationality and Citizenship Act 1956 gave people born in Northern Ireland the right to claim Irish citizenship if they chose to do so. [...] Since 1 January 2005, if you are born in Northern Ireland, you can claim Irish citizenship if your parent (or parents) are either British or Irish citizens, or one of them has lived on the island of Ireland for at least 3 out of the 4 years immediately before your birth.
Claim: More than 700,000 people born in Northern Ireland have an Irish passport. (BBC Northern Ireland, 2021-01-29)
Evidence (2023-10-12): People who are residents of Northern Ireland are entitled to hold either a British or Irish passport, or both. The 1997 Good Friday Agreement asserted the rights of people in Northern Ireland to choose British or Irish passports or both. Since Britain left the EU, over 200,000 residents of Northern Ireland applied for an Irish passport to retain the rights of Irish citizens to live and work in the EU.
Claim: More than 700,000 people born in Northern Ireland have an Irish passport. (BBC Northern Ireland, 2021-01-29)
Evidence (2020-12-31): People born in Northern Ireland have the right to Irish as well as British citizenship. [...] More fundamentally people with Irish passports keep their right to freedom of movement within the EU. [...] "Whilst Northern Ireland will no longer be part of the EU, people born and raised here that choose to be Irish citizens will still be EU citizens," he said.
Claim: More than 700,000 people born in Northern Ireland have an Irish passport. (BBC Northern Ireland, 2021-01-29)
Evidence (2024-09-20): Northern Ireland [edit]Irish nationality law is extended to Northern Ireland. This means that according to the legislation regarding citizenship of Ireland, people born in Northern Ireland are automatically British citizens at birth and are entitled to Irish citizenship but are not automatically Irish citizens until they apply for their Irish passport.[citation needed] [...] In the 2011 census, 1,070,413 British and 375,826 Irish passports were held.[51] In the 2021 census, this was 1,000,207 British and 614,251 Irish passports.[52] [...] - ^ Tamplin, Harley (25 June 2016). "Northern Irish people are scrambling for Irish passports after Brexit". Metro Online. DMG Media. Archived from the original on 29 June 2016. Retrieved 21 October 2016.
Claim: More than 700,000 people born in Northern Ireland have an Irish passport. (BBC Northern Ireland, 2021-01-29)
Evidence (2022-02-09): The British Nationality Act 1981 ensures that anyone born in Northern Ireland to a parent who is settled or is a British citizen automatically becomes a British citizen.Footnote 11 It was not altered in light of the 1998 Agreement. The people of Northern Ireland can thus identify as Irish and can assert their entitlement to Irish citizenship, but if they do, they will be treated in domestic law as dual citizens unless they also take steps to renounce British citizenship. Questions over whether this sufficed for the implementation of the 1998 Agreement were latent for years because the assertion of these different categories of citizenship did not result in operative distinctions between people with these different statuses. In 2012, however, the UK government excluded British citizens who held dual nationality with another EU state from availing themselves of EU law’s residency rules for third-country national family members of EU citizens.Footnote 12 Because the people of Northern Ireland were automatically presumed to be British citizens, this change meant that they could no longer circumvent minimum income requirements for securing the residency of family members by asserting their Irish citizenship, unless they also renounced their British citizenship.Footnote 13
Claim: More than 700,000 people born in Northern Ireland have an Irish passport. (BBC Northern Ireland, 2021-01-29)
Evidence (2016-09-02): Looking at first-generation migrants, there are about 650,000 people in England, Wales and Scotland born on the island of Ireland. Subtract the number of people who already have an Irish passport and you get about a quarter of a million. Then we come to Northern Ireland. There may be people there who would choose not to take up Irish citizenship for any number of reasons, but if we focus just on the entitlement to an Irish passport and again subtract those who don't already have one, that's another 1.3 million people. That means about 6.7 million people in the UK who don't already have an Irish passport who could be entitled to one. We think that's a conservative estimate, but it's still quite a lot more than the current population of the Republic of Ireland, which is 4.8 million.
Claim: More than 700,000 people born in Northern Ireland have an Irish passport. (BBC Northern Ireland, 2021-01-29)
Evidence (2022-03-03): On the 29 January 2020, BBC Newsline made the following claim in an item discussing whether having an Irish passport would be an advantage after Brexit: "More than 700,000 people born in Northern Ireland now have an Irish passport." Less than a minute later in the item: "Almost half of people born in Northern Ireland now have an Irish passport (overlay graphic: "700,000")." [...] The figure of 831,779 Irish passport applications confirms the claim that more than 700,000 people born in Northern Ireland have an Irish passport. [...] The original claim stated "more than 700,000 people born in Northern Ireland have an Irish passport". This claim is substantiated by figures from the DFA.
Claim: More than 700,000 people born in Northern Ireland have an Irish passport. (BBC Northern Ireland, 2021-01-29)
Evidence (2020-01-29): At least 700,000 people born in Northern Ireland now hold an Irish passport. [...] With Brexit approaching on Friday, will people with Irish passports retain more rights than those with British passports living in Northern Ireland? [...] On a visit to Belfast on Monday, the European Union's chief negotiator Michel Barnier said: "Whilst Northern Ireland will no longer be part of the EU, people born and raised here that choose to be Irish citizens will still be EU citizens.
Claim: More than 700,000 people born in Northern Ireland have an Irish passport. (BBC Northern Ireland, 2021-01-29)
Evidence (2024-01-29): The North-South Ministerial Council between Northern Ireland and Ireland met in July 2020 for the first time since 2016, prior to the collapse of the Northern institutions. It was one of the key institutions established as part of the Belfast/Good Friday Agreement to ensure cross border cooperation on matters of mutual interest and concern. [...] Concerns about North-South relations are mirrored in an East-West context as well. Cracks began to appear in the London-Dublin relationship immediately after the Brexit referendum and strong rhetoric was heard on both sides. But relations improved over time, evidenced not least by the May 2019 signing of a memorandum of understanding between the UK and Ireland to formalise the 1948 Common Travel Area Arrangement which allows for the free movement of British and Irish citizens across both jurisdictions to live, to study, to work, and to vote unimpeded. British citizens resident in Ireland will be free to vote in the Republic’s next general election – a reciprocal privilege afforded to Irish citizens in the UK. [...] This is important not least because relations between Northern Ireland and the EU will also be conditioned by the fact that more than 700,000 people born in Northern Ireland hold Irish passports. It is clear that the rights for Irish citizens (as EU citizens) resident in Northern Ireland will be protected after Brexit, but the Protocol itself on Ireland/Northern Ireland does not articulate exactly how these specific rights will be protected. In a landmark case, the UK Home Office has recently agreed that that people from Northern Ireland will be treated as EU citizens within the UK for immigration purposes.
Claim: More than 700,000 people born in Northern Ireland have an Irish passport. (BBC Northern Ireland, 2021-01-29)
Evidence (2022-01-23): In the UK census of 2001, close to 700,000 people claimed to have been born in Ireland, 12.1% of the population of Ireland at that time. In the UK census of 2011, a smaller figure, around 450,000, claimed to have been Irish-born, though in the same year, probably due to the banking crisis and subsequent recession, emigration from Ireland to the UK rose by 25%. In 2018 the amount of Irish-born people in the UK fell again, to less than 400,000, the average age of this group being 53. But what of the second-generation Irish? Kevin Kenny, Professor of History at Boston College and author of Diaspora: A Very Short Introduction, states that ‘70 million people worldwide claim Irish descent.’ Certainly, if the recent rush in the UK to get Irish passports is anything to go by, the figure for non Ireland-born Irish is pretty high, with the highest concentration most likely to be in London. According to the UK think-tank The Runnymede Trust, there are 6 million second-generation Irish people in Britain, around 11% of the population and more than the population of Ireland itself.
Claim: More than 700,000 people born in Northern Ireland have an Irish passport. (BBC Northern Ireland, 2021-01-29)
Evidence (2022-02-09): For more information on citizenship variables, including information on their classifications, the questions from which they are derived, data quality and their comparability with other sources of data, please refer to the Place of Birth, Generation Status, Citizenship and Immigration Reference Guide, Census of Population, 2021. [...] For more information on the place of birth variables, including information on their classifications, the questions from which they are derived, data quality and their comparability with other sources of data, please refer to the Place of Birth, Generation Status, Citizenship and Immigration Reference Guide, Census of Population, 2021.
Claim: More than 700,000 people born in Northern Ireland have an Irish passport. (BBC Northern Ireland, 2021-01-29)
Evidence (2020-03-27): - There are no figures available for Northern Ireland prior to 1911. Figures prior to 1911 include Eire (Northern Ireland and The Irish Free State). [...] In the 1951 Census of England and Wales, there were 492,000 Irish-born residents, accounting for more than a quarter (26%) of all foreign-born residents. Migration of Irish-born to Great Britain stretches back to the famine of the 1840s in Ireland and was associated with rapid industrialisation in Great Britain throughout the 19th century. [...] During the 1950s, increasing numbers of Irish and Caribbean-born migrants arrived in the UK. Between 1951 and 1961, the Irish-born population increased by 39% to 683,000. The Jamaican-born population increased from 6,000 to 100,000 between 1951 and 1961, a more than 16-fold increase. In 1961, the total Caribbean-born population in England and Wales was 172,000. The inflow of Jamaican-born migrants continued into the 1960s, with their number increasing another 71% between 1961 and 1971. The main reasons for emigration from the Caribbean nations to the UK were economic, both "push" and "pull". Further migrants arrived to join relatives from the Caribbean.
Claim: More than 700,000 people born in Northern Ireland have an Irish passport. (BBC Northern Ireland, 2021-01-29)
Evidence (2024-10-09): Visas for Irish people going abroad [...] The Department of Justice and Equality have issued guidelines on obtaining Irish citizenship for children born of surrogacy arrangements. The guidelines can be accessed here. [...] Irish citizens in need of emergency assistance outside of opening hours please call 011-49403200 and leave a message.
Claim: More than 700,000 people born in Northern Ireland have an Irish passport. (BBC Northern Ireland, 2021-01-29)
Evidence (2023-11-23): Back to table of contents9. UK international migration data [...] Official statistics in development for UK immigration, emigration and net migration, year ending June 2012 to year ending June 2023. [...] For more information on the suspension of the NINo application process, see the Department for Work and Pensions’ National Insurance numbers allocated to adult overseas nationals to March 2023 publication on GOV.UK.
Claim: More than 700,000 people born in Northern Ireland have an Irish passport. (BBC Northern Ireland, 2021-01-29)
Evidence (2021-11-29): Democracy Today in Ireland - According to the most recent IDEA global democracy report ( January, 2021) a total of 125 states and territories allow people living abroad to participate in legislative elections, 88 allow participation in presidential elections and 73 countries and territories allow citizens overseas to participate in referendums. https://www.idea.int/our-work/what-we-do/global-state-democracy. Ireland is not one of them - There are currently over 830,000 Irish citizens and passport holders living in Northern Ireland who are denied the right to vote simply because they are on the wrong side of the Border. When Mary McAleese ran for the Presidency of Ireland for the first time in 1997 she and her husband Martin were not allowed to vote because they lived in Belfast - Of the 14 EU Member States that hold direct Presidential elections, only Ireland, Slovakia and Cyprus deprive their overseas citizens of the vote. [...] - Irish citizens living outside the State include 830,000 passports holders in Northern Ireland and another 750,000 living in over 70 nations around the world with a very large concentration of Irish born citizens in Great Britain. They, however, represent a tiny fraction of the much larger global Irish Diaspora of 70 million. [...] - In 2015 the Manning Report on Seanad reform recommended that a majority (30) of the Panel be elected by popular vote on the principle of one person one vote and that the vote be "extended to include Irish citizens in Northern Ireland to holders of Irish passports overseas."
Claim: More than 700,000 people born in Northern Ireland have an Irish passport. (BBC Northern Ireland, 2021-01-29)
Evidence (2024-09-22): "I just think being from where we're from, we're placed in a very difficult position. I feel Northern Irish and obviously being from Northern Ireland you have a connection to Ireland and a connection to the UK. If I could and there was a Northern Irish team I'd play for Northern Ireland. Play for one side or the other – or not play at all because I may upset too many people... Those are my three options I'm considering very carefully". [...] - ^ "Rory McIlroy tax move means Republic reaps the benefits while Northern Ireland is left lagging". Belfast Telegraph. ISSN 0307-1235. Archived from the original on 23 January 2023. Retrieved 23 January 2023.
Claim: More than 700,000 people born in Northern Ireland have an Irish passport. (BBC Northern Ireland, 2021-01-29)
Evidence (2016-11-28): A record number of Irish passports - more than 700,000 - have been issued so far this year. The Republic of Ireland's passport office tweeted the milestone, external: "Wow, we have just broken a new record, over 700,000 Passports have been issued so far this year! #RecordBreaker". Last year, nearly 670,000 Irish passports were issued.
Claim: More than 700,000 people born in Northern Ireland have an Irish passport. (BBC Northern Ireland, 2021-01-29)
Evidence (2019-01-01): 831,779 Irish passport applications were received from those born in Northern Ireland from 2010-2019. People born in Northern Ireland have the right to own British and Irish citizenship as declared by the Belfast/Good Friday Agreement. To obtain an Irish passport, you must be an Irish citizen i.e. you must be born on the island of Ireland. However, if you were not born on the island of Ireland, you may still be eligible for an Irish passport if your grandparents or great-grandparents were born on the island of Ireland.
Claim: More than 700,000 people born in Northern Ireland have an Irish passport. (BBC Northern Ireland, 2021-01-29)
Evidence (2023-11-20): More… - In 2021, there were approximately 4 million EU-born residents in the UK, making up 6% of the population and 37% of all those born abroad. [...] More… - An estimated 6.1 million individuals had applied to the EU Settlement Scheme by the end of June 2023, but not all of them are resident in the UK. [...] Our main estimates of the 2021 migrant population are obtained by combining data from the latest Census and the APS. The former are still not available in Scotland, meaning APS-derived estimates for the year ending June 2021 were used. The calculations are shown below for different nationality groups, by both country of birth and passport held.
Claim: More than 700,000 people born in Northern Ireland have an Irish passport. (BBC Northern Ireland, 2021-01-29)
Evidence (2016-12-01): Applications for Irish passports have reached a record high with a surge in demand from people in Britain after the Brexit vote. The rise has resulted in more than 700,000 Irish passports being issued so far in 2016, according to the government in Dublin. A tweet from the Irish passport office said: "Wow, we have just broken a new record, over 700,000 passports have been issued so far this year! #RecordBreaker." Irish passports will be valuable travel documents after Britain leaves the EU as they will allow the holder to continue to move and work freely within the bloc. Passport applications from Britain over the first ten months of the year were 58,015 — 42 per cent higher than the corresponding period last year. Applications
Claim: The DUP at no point has ever agreed to establish an Irish Language Act with the UK government, with the Irish government, with Sinn Féin or anybody else. (Edwin Poots, 2017-01-17)
Evidence (2017-01-17): The St Andrew’s Agreement committed the UK Government to an Irish Language Act, but subsequent legislation compelled the Northern Ireland Executive to produce a strategy (which may or may not include an Irish Language Act).
Claim: The DUP at no point has ever agreed to establish an Irish Language Act with the UK government, with the Irish government, with Sinn Féin or anybody else. (Edwin Poots, 2017-01-17)
Evidence (2021-06-16): Sinn Féin has said it will not support a new DUP first minister unless the UK government intervenes and introduces language laws from Westminster. [...] Party leader Edwin Poots has said he intends to support Irish language legislation but not necessarily before the next assembly election. [...] Sinn Féin wants the legislation passed before the end of the current NI Assembly term in May 2022, but the DUP has not given that commitment.