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A century after the Free State’s first census, its figures still illuminate Ireland’s struggles with identity, population, ...

Here in Ireland we hold a national census every five years and the early results of the last one, held on April 24, 2016, became available last week. These early results give just the headline ...

Renowned Irish historian and author Tim Pat Coogan has urged Irish-American politicians to scrutinize the handling of the 2021 Northern Irish census, claiming that Catholic numbers have been ...

DUBLIN — Can the dead talk to the living? In Ireland, the answer now is officially yes — at least through their census forms. Earlier this month, when around 2 million households completed their ...

The first round of the 2021 Northern Irish census results were released on Sept. 22, and it produced a shocker: Catholics now outnumber Protestants for the first time since the Northern Irish state ...

Census figures for Northern Ireland, seen as a key determinant of the province’s politics, were released this week. Traditionally split between “pro-British” Protestants and “pro-Irish” Catholics, ...

A peace wall separating Catholic and Protestant communities is seen in Belfast, Northern Ireland, March 1, 2017. Data from the 2021 census showed 45.7% of respondents identified as Catholic or were ...