Introduction - FEMA

Famine and emigration had reduced this figure to 2,971,677 by the time the first census in the newly independent Free State was taken in 1926. By 1966 in excess of 50 per cent of the recorded population was resident in aggregate urban areas. ... Spanish Flu – 1918/19. Like most countries, Ireland too felt the impact of the 1918/19 Spanish flu ... ................
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