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The basic food crop of Ireland was potatoes. There was a "Potato Famine" from 1845 to 1852 caused by a blight that devastated the potato crops nationwide in Ireland. Over a million Irish starved to death, and a huge Immigration to the USA by over a million Irish followed, looking for another place to start over, and work to earn money to eat, as simplistic as that sounds.

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