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 Irish census — the first official population count by the Irish Free State — is now freely available online for ...

Today, after a 100-year wait, the Irish public will be able to access their ancestors’ detailed records taken during the 1926 census.

Perhaps that square did represent a liberty from the small Kerry townland just outside Dingle he had moved from, where he had ...

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

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, ...

The census includes a list of professions which are almost extinct such as lamplighter, umbrella fixer and knitter ...

Here in Ireland we hold a national census every five years and the early results of the last one, held on April 24, 2016, became available last week. These early results give just the headline ...

A comprehensive public programme to celebrate the upcoming centenary release of Ireland's 1926 Census of Population records by the National Archives has been announced by Ireland's Minister for ...

The publication came after three years of work on more than 750,000 individual household and enumerator returns.

The jobs people do to earn a living have changed fundamentally in 100 years, reflecting how the workforce evolves to reflect the world around us ...

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 ...