Jane Casey
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189 appearances
3 recordings
2 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 12 Jul
Jane Casey’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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It can't be released until 100 years later.
And we are now coming up to the 100th year.
So 18th of April 1926 was the first census of the Irish Free State, the Searstot.
Well, I'm unsure if they're all intact, but from what I hear, largely they are.
There's over 700,000 household records that are included.
And you have to remember at the time,
The population of Ireland was only about 2.9 million.
So it was much smaller population than we have now.
So 700,000 household records would cover nearly all of them.
So I can't say for sure that every single one survived, but it's a pretty complete set.
Yeah, it's absolutely incredible work.
It really is.
The archivists in the National Archives obviously went through
hundreds of thousands of records and painstakingly manually digitise them.
So it's a massive piece of work, but it's such a valuable piece of work.
And for people like me, you know, armchair historians, it's just such an exciting, you know, archive to be able to access because generally, you know, our family history and genealogy and all that stuff, you kind of need help of an archivist or you need to go into the archives yourself.
So to actually put in the work to bring this to the masses, not only here in Ireland, but also
descendants of people who might have emigrated, you know, especially during times of upheaval in Ireland.
It really just, you know, it's such a valuable resource.
It really is.
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