Passport Issue
The Free State government did not consider that the status of "British subject" was an appropriate description for its citizens. This caused difficulties between the British and Irish governments over the wording of Irish Free State passports, which used the description "Citizen of the Irish Free State and of the British Commonwealth of Nations". One practical effect was that the Foreign Office refused to provide consular assistance to Free State citizens, unless they held an alternative passport describing the holder as a "British subject".
Read more about this topic: British Nationality Law And The Republic Of Ireland
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