Donal Fallon finds the historic figures of 100 years ago, including ‘jack of all trades’ Maud Gonne and Kitty Kiernan

A lot had changed in Ireland ­between the 1911 and 1926 ­census returns. Against the backdrop of a suffragette boycott of the earlier census, many leading female campaigners were nowhere to be found then, insisting if they were invisible at the ballot box they would make themselves invisible in the census.