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Irish Immigration
Emigrants leaving Ireland
Irish immigration begin in the mid-eighteenth century and intensified during the great potato famine of 1845–1849.
The engraving depicts a family of seven waving forlornly at a ship sailing in the distance.
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"Emigrants Leave Ireland by Henry Doyle 1868."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Emigrants_Leave_Ireland_by_Henry_Doyle_1868.jpg
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