One hundred years after it was conducted, the first full census of independent Ireland is being released for free online. These nearly 3 million records will be of great significance to Ireland’s ...

The 1926 Census of Ireland will be released 100 years to the day after it was recorded. While the Census is compiled every five years, and there are more historic Censuses readily available online ...

Contributors note the 1926 census recorded an Ireland ‘in transition’, with emigration and poverty rife, yet the new State was finding its feet ...

On the night of April 18, 1926, Ireland paused. Across the Irish Free State, enumerators went door to door with clipboards and carefully worded forms, recording names, ages, relationships, religions, ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- The debate over the citizenship question is just the latest controversy that has surrounded the questionnaire since it began in 1790. That first census only asked if respondents were ...

Archive is freely available online from 18 April, revealing the lives, occupations and secrets of 2.9m people The first years of independent Ireland tend to be remembered, if at all, as a dreary ...

What would the drovers, coopers and gatekeepers of a century ago make of the air travel assistants and environmental services ...

At 105 years old, Roselle resident Nancy Lally is part of a group of centenarians whose names are on the Irish census of 1926 ...

THE information contained in the 1926 national census of Ireland was released at the weekend and has revealed an interesting snapshot of life in Cavan and Monaghan in the fledgling new Irish Free ...