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Learn at your own pace, with an explanation after every answer. No score, no leaderboard – and not preparation for a citizenship test: just to know the country and your neighbours a little better.

State & history

What did the 2004 referendum on citizenship (Twenty-seventh Amendment) change?

  • ✓ Birth in Ireland alone no longer gives automatic citizenship; a parent's link to Ireland is also needed Your answer
  • B Children born in Ireland lost the right to hold dual citizenship
  • C Citizenship now requires passing an Irish language exam
  • D Only children of parents born in Ireland can now become citizens

Correct!

Before 2004, anyone born on the island of Ireland was entitled to Irish citizenship. The Twenty-seventh Amendment added a requirement that a parent has a qualifying link, for example being an Irish or British citizen.

Source: Constitution of Ireland, Article 9; Twenty-seventh Amendment of the Constitution Act 2004; citizensinformation.ie

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