Am I irish or not?

[Anonymous]

my grandfather is from Ireland and my grand mother is native American i got in argument with a guy who is from Ireland he got mad and said i’m not irish when we had a convo over what group of people we are i stated i am irish due to ent ancestry from there he got mad and said i am not cause i wasn’t born there i stated but i decend from there and was raised in the culture and beliefs even if i was not born there i see myself as irish and i asked my grandfather he said i would be irish but what do you all think am i irish or not

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no

[slatyb]

You are just you. You may be Irish enough to qualify for an Irish passport.

www.dfa.ie/.../

You must be an Irish citizen to apply for an Irish passport.

If you were born abroad you may be able to obtain citizenship in one of the following ways:

If one of your parents was born in Ireland you may be entitlement to Irish Citizenship by descent.
If one of your grand-parents was born in Ireland or if one of your parents was an Irish Citizen at the time of your birth you may be entitled to Irish Citizenship by obtaining a Foreign Birth Registration Certificate

[jshm2]

You are half ethnically Irish, from your grandfathers side - you're not "Irish".

That's like claiming you're "African" because that's' where all Homo sapiens are from.

[WhitneySnow]

You’re Irish if you identify as Irish and have some cultural connection to Ireland through your grandfather. Technically though you’re one quarter Irish one quarter Native American and one half something else.