A pre-Famine population census that was destroyed during the shelling of the Four Courts during the Irish Civil War has been substantially recovered and is set to be digitized. The 1766 religious ...
The Great Irish Famine claimed the lives of one million people, mainly from the lower classes. In recent decades, its history has become the focus of considerable scholarly and popular attention, but ...
Father Michael Toomey is pictured in a file photo celebrating Mass in the nearly empty Church of Sts. Peter and Paul in Clonmel, Ireland. Once a Catholic giant, Ireland is becoming less religious, ...
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Ireland first counted itself in the 1926 census — the results still echo a century later
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, ...
For anyone in Fermanagh with an interest in family history, April 2026 is shaping up to be a landmark moment with the publication of the 1926 Census.
People participate in the Orange Order celebrations in Belfast, Northern Ireland, July 12, 2022. The celebrations mark the anniversary of Protestant King William’s victory over the Catholic King James ...
A century after the Free State’s first census, its figures still illuminate Ireland’s struggles with identity, population, and political ambition On the night of April 18, 1926, Ireland paused. Across ...
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