Daniel Loftus

I am very excited, Ciarán.

Thank you for having me.

Well, it's the first census Ireland has had in 65 years, which is unusual in itself because we would have usually gotten the census every 100 years.

So we would have gotten the 1901 census in 2001 and the 1911 census in 2011.

But it was made available by a ministerial order in 1961.

So it's the first census release we've had in quite some time.

And it's the first census of the Irish Free State, post-War of Independence and post-Civil War, and 1960 and rising.

So it's an interesting glimpse into Ireland as a newly emerging free state at the time, trying to understand more about the country at the time.

Oh, anything and everything.

Anything that relates to my family history in some manner and my own research into mother and baby homes as Project Infant.

It'll be the first time that mother and baby homes are actually enumerated on census.

So it's going to be interesting to see how they're recorded and in what manner they were.