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Census fever: what is all the fuss about?

In this month’s blog, Angela Byrne reflects on what the release of the 1926 census, recently digitised by the National Archives of Ireland, means to historians.

On Sunday 18 April 1926 there was a westerly wind with localised showers, and a night-time ground frost. The clocks went forward one hour, heralding the off...


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O’Kelly, Brendan Murtagh Career Business and Finance The Sea Gender

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Yeo, Gerald Francis Career Medicine Gender Male [email protected] Tue, 04/28/2026 - 11:25

Yeo, Gerald Francis (1845–1909), general surgeon, academic ...


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Sweeney, Matthew Gerard Career Literature Gender Male Religion

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