How to get an Irish passport

Responding to PROVOcation, if your da was Irish, as mine was, may God be good to him, you are an Irish Citizen. To prove it you need his long-form birth certificate from Ireland, the parents' marriage certificate, your own long-form birth cert and your da's death certificate if he has passed away.

I would love to get an Irish Passport but all my Irish relatives are dead now and I have absolutely no proof. Any hope for me.

Kelly, Anyone admitted to the European Union is allowed to 'travel freely' within the union, no need for an EU passport. As an EU passport holder you are indeed entitled to live and work in any EU country. However, there are some restrictions if you do not have gainful employment in an EU country other than your own, i.e. you have to prove that you have sufficient funds to sustain yourself.

Dear Kelly, I am familiar with the GRO and have obtained many documents from them, but still there are records at times that "can not be found". What are other acceptable records by the consulate for a missing Irish record when the GRO returns a can not find response, the church has no record, and you know the information supplied was correct. Are LDS (Latter Day Saints) historical records ever acceptable?

This is good info, but we need a more targeted way to reach the Irish Registry Office with a request for the form that is required to claim Irish Descendancy and documenation. The closest thing I have to proof is a link to archives in Boyle, Roscommon that contain RC Baptimal records for my maternal grandfather Gaffney and his siblings back in 1820 to 1825...but I also 'know' that I have Cavanaughs from Leitrim who came over to the US in 1853, and Redmonds and Suttons who came over from County Wexford in 1845-1850. Further, my children have knowledge of their McGowan ancestry from County Sligo in 1896, Farrell from County Longford, also in 1896, and Rogers and Kilroy ancestry from County Mayo in the mid-1870's. I suspect that official birth records are sparse for those times and those places.

What if your da is Irish??