{"id":408120,"date":"2026-04-20T11:09:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T11:09:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/408120\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T11:09:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T11:09:13","slug":"ireland-has-changed-profoundly-over-the-past-century","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/408120\/","title":{"rendered":"Ireland has changed profoundly over the past century"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.96fm.ie\/news\/96fm-news-and-sport\/\" class=\"c-btn c-btn--small c-btn--secondary-fill\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>        All 96FM News &amp; Sport<br \/>\n    <\/a><\/p>\n<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aiir-c-news-figure__image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/69e6003a69009.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><br \/>\n                                    Pic: National Archives of Ireland <\/p>\n<p class=\"aiir-c-news-article__abstract\">\n            The National Archives have released the 1926 Census of Population records, covering almost 3 million people in the first census of the Irish Free State.\n        <\/p>\n<p data-end=\"309\" data-start=\"166\">The release covers more than 700,000 household forms, recording details on almost 3 million people in the first census of the Irish Free State.<\/p>\n<p data-end=\"477\" data-start=\"311\">The CSO has marked the publication by comparing life in 1926 with the most recent census in 2022, highlighting major social and economic change over the past century.<\/p>\n<p data-end=\"593\" data-start=\"479\">In 1926, Ireland\u2019s population stood at 2.97 million, compared to 5.15 million in 2022 an increase of 73%.<\/p>\n<p data-end=\"788\" data-start=\"595\">At the time, Cork accounted for around 12% of the national population, while Dublin made up 17%. By 2022, Dublin\u2019s share had grown to 28%, while Cork\u2019s stood at 11%.<\/p>\n<p data-end=\"913\" data-start=\"790\">Life expectancy has also risen dramatically, from around 57 years for men and 58 for women in 1926, to the early 80s today.<\/p>\n<p data-end=\"1061\" data-start=\"915\">The CSO says the census shows a society once dominated by agriculture, with over half of all workers in farming, compared to just 4 percent today.<\/p>\n<p data-end=\"1235\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\" data-start=\"1063\">The records are now available to search online through the National Archives website, offering what\u2019s being described as a major resource for anyone tracing Irish ancestry.<\/p>\n<p data-end=\"1235\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\" data-start=\"1063\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/69e6001985cda.jpg\" style=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apps.apple.com\/us\/app\/onic-player\/id6747436925?ppid=7f34f5aa-7e94-4bfd-8061-e41ce90c27a8\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/68da98f341698.png\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"All 96FM News &amp; Sport Pic: National Archives of Ireland The National Archives have released the 1926 Census&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":408121,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1339,61,60,1344,1345,43,1343,1342,1341,1340],"class_list":{"0":"post-408120","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-cork-96fm","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-live-broadcast-available","12":"tag-lorraine-and-ross","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-news-and-information","15":"tag-presenters","16":"tag-programmes","17":"tag-the-word-on-96fm"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408120","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=408120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408120\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/408121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=408120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=408120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=408120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}