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Come To Your Census: The Podcast

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1926 Census Of Population
Ireland
1926 Census
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Marino Housing Estate
1926 Census Of Population Ireland
National Archives, Ireland
Gola Island
World War I Veterans Housing (homes For Heroes)
Dublin Housing History
1901 Census

In April 1926, a few short years after the foundation of the Irish Free State, a census was taken to count and record people resident here. Nearly three million people were recorded in that census, every household return capturing the fabric of everyday life: names and families, occupations and languages, faith, birthplace. The details that shaped communities across the country.

A century later, ... more

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This episode delves into the 1926 Census to explore the stories behind some of Dublin’s earliest public housing projects. In it, Liz Gillis is joined by local historians Maria O’Reilly and Eamonn Delaney, both with personal family connections to some... more

In this episode, we look beyond the idea of a newly independent Ireland as isolated or inward looking and turn to the 1926 Census to uncover a more complex picture. Liz Gillis speaks with Dr. John Gibney from the Royal Irish Academy about the foreign... more

In this episode, Dr. Cormac Moore joins Liz Gillis to explore what the 1926 Census reveals about the Protestant population in Ireland’s border counties. While the data points to an overall decline, Liz and Cormac look at how that trend was notably bu... more

In this episode, Liz Gillis is joined by Zoe Reid, the National Archives’ Keeper of Manuscripts, to explore the stories hidden in census entries from those who were not at

home on census night. From hotels and guest houses to city lodgings, the reco... more

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Maria O'Reilly
Fourth generation resident of Tenters in Dublin
Tenters community
Episode: Dublin’s Social Housing
Eamonn Delaney
Author and director of the history project, The Lion and the Shamrock
The Lion and the Shamrock
Episode: Dublin’s Social Housing
John Gibney
Historian with the Royal Irish Academy
Royal Irish Academy
Episode: Foreign Nationals And The Free State
Cormac Moore
Historian, founder of HistoryLink and co-host of The Irish History Boys
HistoryLink
Episode: The Protestant Population Of Ireland’s Border Counties
Greg Walls
Historian on the 1926 census project
National Archives of Ireland
Episode: Revolutionaries – Where Are They Now?
Orlaith McBride
Director of the National Archives, Ireland
National Archives, Ireland
Episode: From Gola Island To The World

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Liz Gillis
Host of Come To Your Census Podcast; historian involved in the National Archives of Ireland / RTÉ collaboration and associated with the Royal Irish Academy in context of series.

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Foreign Nationals And The Free State
Q: Can you share a specific example from a household that illustrates these immigrant stories?
The Danker family in Caventown, with members born in Liverpool, Sheffield, and Riga, shows a long migratory arc and how a family moved across regions and countries while adapting their trades within Ireland.
Foreign Nationals And The Free State
Q: How did the Shannon hydroelectric project influence the immigrant presence in Ireland?
The project attracted foreign skilled workers, particularly Germans, who settled in camps and towns around Limerick and contributed to local economies, illustrating how large infrastructure projects shaped migration patterns.
Foreign Nationals And The Free State
Q: What kinds of information from the 1926 census most surprised you when you started looking closely at the records?
Birthplaces and the presence of non-Irish residents across counties stood out, revealing a broader, global network of connections and trades that countered the narrative of mass emigration alone.
Dublin’s Social Housing
Q: Can you give us an overview of what the housing situation was in Ireland in 1926, considering what Ireland had just come through the previous 12 years?
The interviewer asks for a big-picture view of housing post-1922, noting ongoing needs, limited resources, and the perception of the new state taking charge while managing a legacy of slums and displacement from earlier conflicts.

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This series examines Ireland's 1926 Census through expert storytelling that blends social history, archival work, and personal narratives. Episodes explore Dublin's housing history and state-led housing schemes, the immigrant and birthplace patterns revealed by census returns, and border-area demographic shifts, all framed by discussions with historians, archivists, and researchers who illuminate how the census data became a living record of everyday life in the early Free State. A recurring strength is the seamless pairing of scholarly context with intimate, family-level anecdotes and behind-the-scenes looks at digitization and archival processes. The show's unique angle lies in treating census records as a window into memory and nation-bu... more

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