Irish Nationality and Citizenship Act, 1935

Resumption of citizenship by a widow.

14.—Where a woman satisfies the Minister—

(a) that she is a widow, and

(b) that her husband, immediately before his death, was not a citizen of Saorstát Eireann, and

(c) that she was, immediately before her marriage, a citizen of Saorstát Eireann, and

(d) that she relinquished under this Act her citizenship of Saorstát Eireann on account of her marriage to a person who was not a citizen of Saorstát Eireann, and

(e) that she is ordinarily resident in Saorstát Eireann,

such woman shall be entitled to make and lodge with the Minister in the prescribed form and manner a declaration that she intends to continue to be ordinarily resident in Saorstát Eireann and desires to resume her citizenship of Saorstát Eireann, and upon so making and lodging such declaration such woman shall be deemed to have resumed her citizenship of Saorstát Eireann.