1926 Census Release
15 Apr 2026
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We’re nearly there! The census will be released in the early hours of Saturday 18th April. It will be available from the revamped census site
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The Irish Folklore Collection at UCD has been inscribed on the UNESCO Memory of the World Register as a cultural artefact of world-wide importance.
Council Chamber, City Hall, Dame Street, Dublin 2
on Tuesday 13 March 2018, 13.00-14.00
The celebration will include three short talks:
1.10 Welcome from Ardmhéara Micheál Mac Donncha
1.20 Dr Críostóir Mac Cárthaigh
In Focus: The Irish Folklore Commission Collection 1935-70
1.30 Anna Bale
Sampling the Irish Folklore Collection Sound Archive
1.40 Jonny Dillon
Dúchas.ie and the Digitisation of the National Folklore Collection
1.50 Concluding remarks
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