The primary law governing nationality of the Republic of Ireland is the Irish Nationality and Citizenship Act 1956, which came into force on 17 July 1956. All persons born in the Republic before 1 January 2005 are automatically citizens by birth regardless of the nationalities of their parents. Individuals born in the country since that date receive Irish citizenship at birth if at least one of their parents is an Irish citizen or entitled to be one, a British citizen, a resident with no time limit of stay in either the Republic or Northern Ireland, or a resident who has been domiciled on the island of Ireland for at least three of the preceding four years. Persons born in Northern Ireland are usually entitled to – but not automatically granted – Irish citizenship, largely under the same terms. Foreign nationals may become citizens by naturalisation after meeting a minimum residence requirement, usually five years. The president of Ireland may also grant honorary citizenship, which entails the same rights and duties as normal citizenship, although this is rare.

Read more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_nationality_law

_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:

1910:

Hurricane-force winds combined hundreds of small fires in the U.S. states of Washington and Idaho into the Devil's Broom fire, which burned about three million acres (12,140 km²), the largest fire in recorded U.S. history. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Fire_of_1910

1920:

The American Professional Football Association, a predecessor of the National Football League, was founded. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Football_League

1998:

The Al-Shifa pharmaceutical factory in Sudan was destroyed by a missile attack launched by the United States in retaliation for the August 7 U.S. embassy bombings. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Infinite_Reach

2008:

Spanair Flight 5022 crashed just after take-off from Madrid's Barajas Airport, killing 154 people. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanair_Flight_5022

_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:

coenobium: 1. A conventual or monastic community; also, a convent or monastery. 2. (by extension) 3. (botany) A fruit of a plant from either of the families Boraginaceae (the borages) or Lamiaceae which has small loculi or compartments, reminiscent of the cells in a convent or monastery. 4. (botany) A colony of algae which acts as a single organism; a coenobe. 5. (zoology) A colony of unicellular organisms (such as protozoa) which acts as a single organism. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/coenobium

___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:

The courage to be as oneself is never completely separated from the other pole, the courage to be as a part; and even more, that overcoming isolation and facing the danger of losing one's world in the self-affirmation of oneself as an individual are a way toward something which transcends both self and world. Ideas like the microcosm mirroring the universe, or the monad representing the world, or the individual will to power expressing the character of will to power in life itself — all these point to a solution which transcends the two types of the courage to be.   --Paul Tillich https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Paul_Tillich