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  2. Demographics of the Republic of Ireland - Wikipedia

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    The island of Ireland's population has fluctuated over history. In the 18th and early 19th centuries, Ireland experienced a major population boom as a result of the Agricultural and Industrial Revolutions. In the 50-year period 1790–1840, the population of the island doubled from 4 million to 8 million.

  3. Historical population of Ireland - Wikipedia

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    The population of Ireland in 2024 was approximately 7.2 million (5.35 million in the Republic of Ireland and 1.91 million in Northern Ireland). Although these figures demonstrate significant growth over recent years, the population of Ireland remains below the record high of 8,175,124 in the 1841 census.

  4. Ireland - Wikipedia

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    The population of Ireland rose rapidly from the 16th century until the mid-19th century, interrupted briefly by the Famine of 1740–41, which killed roughly two-fifths of the island's population. The population rebounded and multiplied over the next century, but the Great Famine of the 1840s caused one million deaths and forced over one ...

  5. List of settlements on the island of Ireland by population

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    The Greater Dublin Area has a population of 2,082,605. 2 Belfast: 293,298 Ulster: County Antrim, County Down: Northern: Capital of Northern Ireland and largest city in all of Ulster. Home to Northern Ireland's devolved government and power-sharing assembly. Belfast received city status in 1888. Briefly Ireland's most populous city around 1900 ...

  6. Census of Ireland - Wikipedia

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    The census of Ireland is typically held on a quinquennial basis by the Central Statistics Office to determine the population of the Republic of Ireland. The most recent census was held in 2022 . As of November 2022, the next census was planned to occur in 2027. [ 1 ]

  7. Timeline of Irish history - Wikipedia

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    This is a timeline of Irish history, comprising important legal and territorial changes and political events in Ireland. To read about the background to these events, see History of Ireland . See also the list of Lords and Kings of Ireland , alongside Irish heads of state , and the list of years in Ireland .

  8. Timeline of Belfast history - Wikipedia

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    The city of Belfast is 75% Protestant, however, the whole island of Ireland is 75% Catholic. [68] 1901 – Population of Belfast is estimated to be 349,180. [34] 1906 – Belfast City Hall and Victoria Park open. [69] [70] 1907 - The city saw a bitter strike by dock workers organised by radical trade unionist Jim Larkin. The dispute saw 10,000 ...

  9. List of islands of Ireland - Wikipedia

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    The number of people living on Irish offshore islands decreased dramatically during the Irish famine and the period following it. Since then the trend on most islands has been a decreasing population until the 1950s and 1960s, during which many islands were forcibly evacuated by the Irish Government as continuous bad weather meant that islanders were unable to travel to the mainland for ...