This is how life in Ireland has changed over the last 100 years

What has changed in the century since the 1916 Rising? Virtually everything it seems, from how we name our children to how we travel.
This is how life in Ireland has changed over the last 100 years

Life in 1916 Ireland: Stories from Statistics, by the CSO shows that the population has increased by 46% in the century since the Rising. Between 1911 and 2011, it went from 3.1m to 4.6m people.

However, we were a younger population back then.

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