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It caused lots of Irish people to leave Ireland. Many of those went to the USA and right to this day many people can trace their ancestry as far back as to those people that came from Ireland in the 1840s. Many Irish people got heavily involved in American society, working in all sorts of areas and helping to contribute to the development of the USA at that time. Their legacies remain in things they did, like building cities and towns, building railways, get involved with the police, army, navy, fire services, politics etc.

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