On Sunday, 18 April, 1926, in an eight-roomed house on Serpentine Avenue in Ballsbridge, 43-year-old Eamon De Valera filled out the census form in Irish as the head of his household. He noted his birthplace, how long he and his wife Sinéad had been married and the number of children they had, with all seven being present in the house on census night. A domestic servant from Granard in Longford was written down as the tenth member of the household on census night. The census was one of the great ambitious projects of the new Free State government alongside the…

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