Offer citizenship to the Diaspora

Hello, I have just read about your organization and concepts, it is brilliant!  I have thought of similar things myself and I'm so happy to see someone has started to implement it.  

I began looking for my family in Dungarvan Ireland about five years ago.  I went there, contacted a genealogist, went to the library where I was shown maps and records of the streets, houses and church my family  belonged to.  It was wonderful and changed my inner concepts of who I am.   I always had the feeling that the town should empbrace returning family, but there was no mechanism/organization for this.   It seems you have begun one.  

I have also read about the Irish Ancestry project where if you have some kin in the closet you get special tourist discounts - this seems so phony and condiscending, I cant imagine how anyone would thing participating in it is worthwhile.  On the other hand, I have a radical idea in this regard.  I think Irish Immigration should go back to offering citizenship to Ethnic Irish all over the world whose great grandparents were born in Ireland, I believe this was the case many years ago.  Im sure there are many people such as myself who have only Irish blood and feel emotionally and physically connected, to the Irish race and Ireland, though we were born in different countries.  This group is older, more appreciative of family history, probably has some retirement income.  The government could tweek the requirements appropriately.  Would this bring these people to Ireland?   Perhaps, but it would be a true welcome home, Oro, Se Do Bheatha Bhaile!

ps, I believe one of my great grandmothers was a Fury from Loughrea. 

Thanks for listening,  
Elaine