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their were better job and better poertunities for you and your children more thing to do more money being paid for jobs and loads of things being built ..

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11y ago

Beause of the Potato Famine started by a virus called "blight virus"

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They went in search of a better life, particularly during the famine years in the 1840s, when hunger left many people dying.

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11y ago

because of the potato famine

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