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The reasons I know of are because of religious persecution from penal laws in their own country, in addition to others. Also, Ireland was one of the poorest countries in Western Europe at the time, (because of interference from Great Britain). There was also a great famine at the time in Ireland. America was seen as the land of opportunity for many at the time, ( not just the Irish). I would probably give out more info on this topic but my sister needs to get on this computer and my computer is having trouble. I'm primarily Irish, Scottish, and British; I'm proud to be so too. I somewhat quoted some of this info from wikipedia so I'm not sure how accurate some of this is. I hope I completely answered your question.

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