No. 38 of 2004 - Irish Nationality and Citizenship Act 2004
What does this law do?
Following the referendum held in June 2004, this Act sets out the framework within which the entitlement to Irish citizenship of persons born in the island of Ireland to a non-national parent can be determined.
The Act provides that a child born in the island of Ireland to parents, neither of whom is Irish, is not entitled to be an Irish citizen unless one of the parents has been lawfully resident in the island of Ireland for 3 of the 4 years immediately preceding the birth.
Contact Department: Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform
Signed by the President on: 15.12.04
Full version of Irish Nationality and Citizenship Act 2004 on Oireachtas website