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The Irish emmigrated to a lot of countries during the famine.America was a popular country because it hadn't fully been discovered and people saw it as a land of opertunity. plus they were only going to slowly perish if they stayed in Ireland Half the population didn't emigrate. The population did halve during the Great Famine but there were a lot of deaths.

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