The combined population of Ireland and Northern Ireland increased by 1.5 million between 2002 and 2022, a newly published ...

By 1901, there was one nun per 400 members of the Irish population and many of these women left the country for missionary ...

Almost all 19th-century census records were destroyed but some have been recovered as part of the Virtual Treasury project ...

Genealogical riches from every county of Ireland feature among new historical records which are now available online.

The island of Ireland, has a long, complex history shaped by political and religious conflict. The roots of this division trace back to the 12th century when the Normans expanded their rule from ...

Ireland’s population tops 5 million for the first time since 1840s Net migration and natural increases in the Irish population have resulted in the 390,000-person boost between 2016 and 2022.

The latest census figures show that for the first time there are more people from a Catholic background in Northern Ireland than Protestant. The proportion of the resident population which is ...

632,000 non-Irish citizens were living in Ireland when the 2022 Census was taken, according to newly-released data from the Central Statistics Office.

Ireland’s population has gone above 5 million people for the first time since the Great Famine, census figures show. After decades of continuous decline in the Irish population since 1841, it is ...

One in five of the population said they were born outside of Ireland and nearly 750,000 people indicated they could speak a language other than Irish or English.