Episode 8: The Brexit Irish

The Irish Passport

Society & Culture

4.8 • 673 Ratings

🗓️ 16 August 2017

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Applications for Irish passports surged in the last year, largely from people in Britain and Northern Ireland. Who are the new 'Brexit Irish'? We meet them in this new episode and hear their motivations for claiming their Irish identity. We also speak to the Irish ambassador who found himself in the eye of the storm as applications soared. Tim hits the streets of Galway to investigate what ordinary Irish citizens think of the newcomers -- and is taken aback by what he hears. Discover why Ireland has such a large diaspora in the first place, and the key role they played in the foundation of the state.

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0:00.0	Hello, welcome to Irish Passport.
0:02.3	Let's do it.
0:03.1	Welcome to the Irish Passport.
0:04.8	I'm Tim McInerney.
0:06.0	I'm Naomi O'Leary.
0:07.0	We're friends.
0:07.7	Can you both to Naomi?
0:08.5	Anwar Fat, Tim.
0:09.9	This is your passport to Irish culture, history and politics.
0:13.2	Uh-huh.
0:13.5	I'm recording.
0:14.2	One, two, two, three.
0:16.6	Okay.
0:16.7	Okay.
0:39.9	Hello and welcome back to the Irish Passport podcast. Today we are looking at the phenomenon of the huge rise in Irish passport applications, which actually were up 70% last year and they've kept
0:45.4	up that increased rate ever since. Yes, the rise began right after the UK's recent vote to leave the
0:50.7	EU and it has mostly come from UK citizens, about half from Britain and about
0:55.4	half from Northern Ireland. People in Northern Ireland, of course, have the same rights to
0:59.5	Irish citizenship as people in the Republic. They can have both Irish and UK citizenship if they
1:05.0	like. Yeah, and of course the people who apply from Britain are somewhat different, so they can
1:08.9	apply through dissent. That means due to
1:11.3	an Irish parent or a grandparent. So we're examining the questions. Why are people applying? And
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