Talk:Patrick Cosgrave

Cosgrave's nationality
If Cosgrave reportedly "had a British passport" – colloquially speaking – then surely he was a British subject, therefore "British", and therefore "a Briton"? Cosgrave also died in England, as an emigrant. Plain "Irish" normally and ordinarily means a person who was born and who died in Ireland. Not so in his case. -- KC9TV 04:29, 2 December 2012 (UTC)

I don't know where you get the idea that 'plain Irish' means that you have to have been born and die in Ireland, there are plenty of Irish citizens who weren't born in Ireland and some of them have had very senior posts in the Irish government. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 109.156.13.12 (talk) 14:53, 12 August 2020 (UTC)