If you were not born and raised in Ireland you are not Irish . Wrong . Once again you are conflating nationality with ethnicity . I am not claiming to be of Irish nationality though I am a dual citizen thanks to my mom . I am stating that according to a DNA test which really only confirmed what I already knew , I am Irish by DNA . It ' s extremely racist to say otherwise , because then you ' d be saying a black person born and raised in Ireland is not IrishI can ' t even begin to unravel the idiocy in your logic . Seriously just look up in a dictionary ethnicity and nationality and stop being an idiot . If the black person is a citizen of Ireland they are Irish nationality . If they do not have any Irish blood in them they are not Irish ethnicity , but again are still Irish nationality .