THE 1926 CENSUS records are released tomorrow, making available for the first time the personal information related to the almost 3m people living in Ireland on the night of 18 April, 1926.

It will enable people to search and view the individual returns from each household, including what job your relatives and their neighbours worked in and whether they could speak Irish, during the early days of the Free State.

The records will also show who lived in your house and local area a century ago.

It is estimated there are about 1,000 people recorded in the Census still alive today.

To reflect this, the Census project hopes to “capture the first-hand personal testimony of those who will see their own original family records made public” this weekend.

They have been described as official ‘centenarian ambassadors’ for the project.

€5m in funding for the project was originally made available by then-Minister for Arts and Culture Catherine Martin in November 2022.

The current Minister for Arts and Culture Patrick O’Donovan has outlined a programme of events, including an RTÉ documentary and a theatrical show.

There will also be major exhibitions in Dublin, London, Boston and across Ireland.