An exhibition of records presented by the National Archives will open tomorrow to mark the 75th anniversary of Ireland becoming a republic.
Using the 1926 census as a starting point, the exhibition charts how the State and Irish society interacted from the 1920s to the end of the twentieth century.
The first census of the Irish Free State provided the Government of the day with a statistical picture of Ireland and its people. The exhibition shows how symbols of Ireland such as the Irish harp and the 'punt' were produced and how public morality was shaped by the increasingly central role played by the Catholic Church in the affairs of the State.Millions attended the event which was used to show at the time that the new State was succeeding.
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