In this section we have included a brief introduction to the history of British Administration in Ireland along with information on some of the people involved and links to their Census reports.
We have also included information and Census links for some other people who were connected to the Easter Rising. Eoin MacNeill was 43 at the time of the 1911 Census and Michael Collins was 20 in 1911, but we could only find a 1901 Census report for Michael when he was 10 years old. The Census returns for Cathal Brugha, Arthur Griffith, Eoin MacNeill and Seán T. O’Kelly were completed in Irish. Although Éamon de Valera was an Irish language enthusiast, he signed his name as “Edward” on the 1911 Census form. Francis and Hanna Sheehy-Skeffington supported the Suffragette movement and did not fill out her details on the 1911 Census form, (as the Suffragists had organised a boycott of this Census), and so the details for Hanna were subsequently added by the enumerator.
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