Story Of Us, The

On 18 April 1926 the first census of an independent Irish state was undertaken. Across the 26 counties over 700,000 census forms were completed by, or on behalf of, the 2,971,992 people living in the Irish Free State. But what can we know of the lives they led? A century after the census forms were completed, they have been released by the National Archives. The Story of Us draws together a wide range of scholars to explore the world reflected in the census and to reflect what Ireland was like in the newly independent Ireland of 1926.