{"id":404420,"date":"2026-04-18T02:38:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T02:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/404420\/"},"modified":"2026-04-18T02:38:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T02:38:08","slug":"historic-1926-census-shows-protestant-population-drop-in-irish-free-state-bbc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/404420\/","title":{"rendered":"Historic 1926 census shows Protestant population drop in Irish Free State &#8211; BBC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMiWkFVX3lxTFA5Zk9FWEg1T0dGak1fTW15QXZ5MjhVbGNybVoxM1RUMkZYLU00TGtudkxIMTE3dWhYN0lwVVc4d3RLY2Zoa0Vvbmx6ZW1iV1dOZkdtVmVidEk1QQ?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Historic 1926 census shows Protestant population drop in Irish Free State<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;BBC<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMihwFBVV95cUxPQk53Yy10bkVBOW1uWGJsZGNoSFA3Q1FfYThFTXd5WmgxQ2NLYTQ1V1ktU29WbTEyd2hUd3V0RjdTaGFBNjI1QTJwczhGZkx6eTJZbm53NVY0UFFkMjF1c3lvd0V2R2ZXUE5za2pEa2F2ZWI0VG5SVE9ULUlyQWIwcVRqclJuSTQ?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Watch: 1926 Census records to be released to public<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;RTE.ie<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMi4gFBVV95cUxNNndsd3ZYZHl2TDRWTi1DRTdacGgyY3VOVDl5V0Q2eTlUdk5TY2NnSlVEc3VDTlU1R2VaMG1lby13WHFMNndhbXhWNWxtYk1pMmhLZUlwTVFaVUVKeVBuSFc0a2I4NnlzcUhhQWM4NnhyeEFCX3V3MERGSUdyMVd2M3NHNnJVTkFuY2ZvRXZwV1BkUnlfS3JtWlRYZm5tSDkzeFdSRWF0Sml0N3cxbmh1c3ZtcEZvcVh4SFJmQ28tcGI3QW5VaWFWd1VmYWdYb3Z2MVZVam1nWnFBSXdURHhiQTZ3?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">\u2018How different things are now\u2019: Some of Ireland\u2019s oldest people on what life was like over the last 100 years<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;The Irish Times<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMiZEFVX3lxTFBHWWlhSFpoU1ZJbkZKc3ZQVjNxVHlNQzlIWERIV0JfZC1PbGdKZHp1a1JqXzVpZ00wX3kzZm5sZnc3azE5Uk1pLWFtb3pvU2pQRWRyZl80TzNsYXAzSVpjZF84R1Q?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">You&#8217;ll be able to find out what your relatives were up to in April 1926 from tomorrow<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;The Journal<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMi2wFBVV95cUxOOFp6dDltV2drQUVtNkYwQU5OTTBLVDdKNDM2ajFBb21YOUI1SERlM3QyY1ZwNVBYUjEtODFBSnhXUnZBb1o4OVpYX0k5OTRNVWpLXzJsOGduUVA0ZVAycGhUdm1LMEVUaDhiOEZrTWdtOC1nR0o5M29xd0ZOSkxzWkp5blZVQ1laUG9rWXIzVW40NVNHbUlmOVBGWUFVMHpQZmUtU2xsTFhyMndPcGxsVjhrR1phMGpPZ0VUTUd4bHptdGkyZ2IxTVBuUUhITi1Ib2ZOSTk1MjVaaWs?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">80 million people globally claim Irish ancestry \u2013 why the release of 1926 Irish census records is so momentous<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;The Conversation<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Historic 1926 census shows Protestant population drop in Irish Free State&nbsp;&nbsp;BBCWatch: 1926 Census records to be released to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":404421,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-404420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=404420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404420\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/404421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=404420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=404420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=404420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}