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FAMILIES IN IRELAND have become all-too familiar with emigration again over the past four years but Census 2011 has some surprising figures.
Some 19,593 Irish people actually returned to Ireland in the 12 months prior to April 2011.
Of those, 7,338 had lived in the UK and 3,921 had been residing in Australia.
Another 1,688 came back from the US. The remainder of the Irish returned from a wide range of countries, including Canada (845), Spain (662) and France (529).
The “where were you a usual resident of one year ago” question allowed for this information to be collected.
The data also showed that 1991 to 2000 were the peak years for Irish-born people to return to Ireland – usually from the UK or the US.
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Erasmus students.
Returned to Ireland from the uk or Ireland?
Thanks Stephanie. Eyes have gone after all the day’s statistics!
Appreciate the note but just for future reference, we do have a ‘Send a Correction’ option (beside my pic above) if you notice a typo or anything else that needs changing!
Cheers,
Sinead
Complete lies!
Really? You think people lied on the census form? Why would they?
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20000 returned. Fair play to them, and how many have left?
Emigration not immigration in first para. Proof-read!
If you took the time to read yourself
you would have seen the send a correction link and also seen sineads comment in relation to sending corrections which was made 3 hours before you commented.
Or maybe you just get off on letting people know your grasp of the language!!!!
Does moving from Donegal to Derry count as emigration?? :)
I would be interested in a age analysis of this group.
I reckon a significant minority of the UK returnees were people retiring back to Ireland
@Sinead – you want the readers to do the editing and Quality control. Thanks for all you input and readers please keep up the good work.
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