Explore the changing face of Ireland, using real numbers and data from the official census!

How many people live on the island of Ireland and why are there fewer people today than there were 100 years ago?
Where do most of us live, and what is the fastest-growing region?
What languages do we speak?
99% of children in Ireland go to school, but how many went 100 years ago?
And are there really more cows than people on our island?
Take a deep dive into the data and you'll be amazed by what the numbers tell us about Ireland past and present!

Jackie McCann is the author of several books for children including the bestselling If The World Were 100 People, which won the Royal Society Young People’s Book Prize in 2022 and the ALCS Educational Writers’ Award in 2023.