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There are various reasons. Famously there was the famine in the second half of the 1840s. People left then because of the poverty and hunger. Some left because they were found guilty of crimes and were banished from Ireland under British rule. At other times they have left in search of employment when jobs were hard to get in Ireland. Like any immigrants from any country, they leave in search of a better life.

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