The 1926 Census returns have been released online in a landmark initiative that gives the public an insight into the lives of people living in Ireland 100 years ago.
Taken on 18 April 1926, the census was the first conducted after the establishment of the Irish Free State and provides the earliest comprehensive snapshot of an independent nation emerging from a period of profound upheaval.
The National Archives has now made the entire census, comprising over 700,000 individual household returns, freely available and fully searchable online.
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