There's an interesting article in the Irish Times showing how a US academic called John Portmann was successfully able to use DNA proof via Ancestry.com to gain an Irish passport. Portmann was able to show through his DNA research that his father was from Dublin ad his mother from Co. Kilkenny, albeit following a court case in Arizona, USA. You can read the article at https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2024/07/21/dna-detectives-help-adopted-american-man-who-never-knew-biological-parents-to-obtain-irish-citizenship/.
A reminder that there is a useful gudie to obtaining an Irish passport on the RootsIreland website at https://www.rootsireland.ie/help/help-civil-records/how-to-apply-for-an-irish-passport/, and that my own journey to obtain Irish passports for myself and my two sons here in Scotland has been documented on this blog, starting at http://britishgenes.blogspot.com/2016/06/claiming-irish-passport-1.html.
Chris
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