The approximate population of Ireland in 1950 was about 2.9 million people. Fleetwood began business in 1950, so that gives the right ballpark for the country’s population at the time.

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Ireland’s population was still recovering from earlier declines and had not yet reached 3 million in the mid-1950s, which makes a 1950 estimate of roughly 2.9 million a reasonable approximation.