Data from Ireland’s 1926 census was made public this year, and how Galway city features in it will be the subject of a talk at the Harbour Hotel on Monday, October 5, at 8pm.
This lecture in the Galway Archaeological and Historical Society autumn series deals with the recently-released 1926 census with a presentation from Dr John Gibney.
On April 18, 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 state.
Using the statistical information collated by the census along with some of the details to be found on the individual returns, the lecture will explore some of the textures of everyday life in Galway city, as revealed in April, 1926.
Dr Gibney produced The Story of Us: Independent Ireland and the 1926 Census with Orlaith McBride, and co-curated major, international exhibition developed by the National Archives to mark the release of the 1926 census.
He is the author of A Short History of Ireland (Yale University Press ).
