Recent Irish kilt question

[O'Callaghan]

I have no doubt that what you say is true... and I have never tried to claim the kilt as being Irish, but these days, there is a market, generated by the mills in Scotland, directed at an Irish consumer.. We have a couple different mills who each have their hands in the creation of County tartans, we have a form of Argylls manufactured, again in Scotland for an Irish market, and please correct me if I am wrong, I believe MOR made a
comment that he had a hand in the creation of the Kilkenny and Brian Boru jackets.

We all agree the Scots originated the kilt, and it is their National Dress, but it's safe to say, Scottish markets are benifitting from the pan Celtic revivalism that is putting not only Irish, but Welsh, Cornish, Britens, as well as Canadian, American, et al. into kilts..

History will not or even should not be rewritten by no means, but if you spy and Irishman in a County Cork kilt, someone in Scotland made money...and everyone feels good about it.

And incidentally, my Irish blood is enough to give me Irish Citizenship, but to get it, I would have to give up my British citizenship. I hold a dual citizenship, already.

You don't have to give up British citizenship to get Irish citizenship unless both claims to citizenship are from Northern Ireland. Only one citizenship or the other can be claimed from NI, but British and Irish citizenship are not otherwise mutually exclusive.

If you are already a US citizen, this makes no difference. The renunciation of all other citizenships when you become a naturalised US citizen doesn't even have any effect upon either British or Irish citizenship.

OTOH, you cannot be a citizen of two commonwealth countries, e.g. the UK and Canada would be a barred combination, although I'm not sure whether Canada still recognises that rule. At least two former British colonies are not members of the commonwealth though, the US, which never was, and Ireland, which resigned from the commonwealth to preserve its military neutrality just before the outbreak of WW2.

One type of claim to Irish citizenship, 'by association' can be continued an infinite number of generations, or until the chain is broken. My grandfather failed to claim Irish citizenship, and is now beyond persuasion, so that scotches my own claim. Otherwise I would have been able to have both British and Irish passports, neither claim having anything atall to do with Northern Ireland.