The publication of the 1926 census has taken Joe Davis by surprise. “I never thought I would be reading about myself in a census from 100 years ago,” says the 103-year-old of the 100-year-old census that will be released tomorrow. “But isn’t it marvellous for people to be able to read about their grandparents?” Davis is one of 48 “centenarian ambassadors” announced by the National Archives of Ireland in advance of the release of the 1926 Census of Population records, the first census taken after the foundation of the State in 1922. The 48 were alive at the time of...