The Council of Irish Genealogical Organizations (CIGO) launched an online petition calling on the Government of Ireland to honor the commitment given in the 2011 Program for Government to release the ...

The Irish government will move ahead with a controversial decision to publish the Republic's 1926 census, even though it is in clear breach of the 100-year rule which governs the release of all such ...

The Government will publish the 1926 census online at a cost of €5m to the State for the first time, detailing personal information about nearly three million people who lived in Ireland 100 years ago ...

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Exactly 100 years to the day, the first ever Irish Census will be published for the very first time. The 1926 Census was the first of its kind recorded by the fledgling Irish state after gaining ...