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Fuck that. I'd want the Irish to let me have a passport because my closest Irish ancestor is my great-grandfather. I'm three quarters Irish but most came over during the Potato Famine.
You'd fit right in with most Americans, as they like to go around claiming Irish heritage and a lot of them have a much more tenuous link than yourself.
In Liverpool Irish heritage is almost taken for granted - amongst my immediate friends, the majority could get an Irish passport, only myself and one other friend miss out by a generation, then there's a few Welsh thrown into the mix. Even my American second cousins don't make a big deal about it, although they feel very affectionate about Liverpool - one even started their honeymoon here, which struck everyone else as a bit of a waste.
I remember me and my sister imploring our mum to get one so we could get one in 2016, but she wouldn't see the point of it.
You're right, the Irish find it insufferable when Americans come over and do that.
Irish is the largest component in my own mongrel mix, and my surname's Irish, but when I meet Irish people, I'll say "ancestry isn't culture, and I know that," in order to clear the air. My most recent Irish immigrant ancestor arrived in the 1880s. All I got from them is too many freckles, a red beard and an uncanny ability to drink alcohol without getting a hangover (I make lots of acetaldehyde dehydrogenase).
The cut off is grandparents. I know as I'm entitled to Irish citizenship via my grandmother (as soon as I get a copy of her death certificate)