CITIZENSHIP BILL
No British Subjects in Free State SECOND READING PASSED Dublin, November 28. The Daib passed the second reading c£ the Irish Citizenship Bill without division. Jlr. de Valera emphasised that after it was enacted, nobody in the Dree State would be a British subject; otherwise all the principles agreed upon at Imperial Conferences would be jettisoned. It would be an impertinence if Britain claimed as citizens persons who were obviously citizens of another country. Not one comma of rhe Bill need be altered, if Ireland were declared a republic to-morrow.
A message received on November 6 stated that, the Government of the Irish Free State had issued the text of a Citizenship Bill, under which the title of a British subject is abolished in favour of “a citizen of the Irish Free State,” who, however, will be entitled to claim the privilege of British citizenship as long as the Free State is a member of the British Commonwealth. . It was added that as long as the Free Staje citizens enjoy the privileges of British citizenship outside the Free State, the Government in Dublin will undertake to provide all Empire citizens with similar privileges in the Free State. The “News-Chronicle’s” Dublin correspondent said that the Citizenship Bill created a surprise in Dublin.
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Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 57, 30 November 1934, Page 4
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213CITIZENSHIP BILL Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 57, 30 November 1934, Page 4
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