Although NI's 1926 Census forms were lost, surviving data gives a snapshot of society at the time.

The census is an important national event as it counts everyone in the country at a particular time. The first known census ...

One hundred years after it was conducted, the first full census of independent Ireland is being released for free online.

Northern Ireland’s population is going to shrink sooner than previously thought, after reaching a lower-than-anticipated peak ...

The historic records show how an impoverished, agricultural, deeply Catholic country has been transformed into modern-day ...

The historic 1926 Irish Census records from the Irish Free State went public at midnight — here's how to search the National ...

The 1926 census is available online from Saturday morning and the public are able to look up their own families.