‘It just absolutely baffles me’: How Ireland’s ‘single tax’ hurts at weddings as well as on mortgages
Death, taxes and ... attending weddings – the financial penalties imposed for remaining single
Census
Republicans used 1926 Census to attack Cumann na nGaedheal failings, historian says
Critics, including William Butler Yeats, warned housing shortages and poverty were driving stagnation and depopulation
Rose Anne Kenny: Why are ages 30, 50 and 70 vital moments in determining how we grow old?
The publication of the 2026 census brought a renewed focus on ageing and the factors that influence it
Census 1926 shows how work has changed in Ireland over a century
What would the drovers, coopers and gatekeepers of a century ago make of the air travel assistants and environmental services managers of today?
I’ve lost days to online records of my relatives in 1926 census. Here’s what I found
Emer McLysaght: I can’t find my great-grandmother on the 1926 census, and I’ve searched every combination of name and location I can think of
What Census 1926 reveals about lives of children 100 years ago
Childhood historian unpacks ‘emotional impact’ for families of those in mother and baby homes on eve of April 18th, 1926
The Story of Us: Independent Ireland and the 1926 Census – illuminating essays on our first count
Contributors note the 1926 census recorded an Ireland ‘in transition’, with emigration and poverty rife, yet the new State was finding its feet
Éamon de Valera in Ballsbridge, ‘Sam A Barclay Beckett’ in Foxrock: Who was where 100 years ago?
Details on public figures and their whereabouts and families are contained in the 1926 Census
Mount Juliet jewel heist, Malahide murders: The ‘eventful’ weekend of 1926 Irish census
The Irish person who garnered perhaps the most international attention 100 years ago does not appear in the independent Irish State’s first census at all
Names of children in mother and baby homes among records released in 1926 census
Census 100 years ago was the first to record the status of ‘orphanhood’
A new CSO report debunks the vacant property narrative
Using electricity consumption to measure vacancy shows Ireland has a rate far below that indicated by census data
First generation diaspora shrinks as fewer young Irish people feel the need to emigrate
St Patrick’s Day offers an opportunity to examine the changing nature of Irish emigration down the centuries
Highly educated emigrants are more likely to return
Housing crisis runs the risk of deterring returning emigrants in the current generation, which will damage the economy
Here’s one thing to look forward to this year: the release of the 1926 census
Opening of this material will facilitate much research, and for many the chance to place our own family story in context
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