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[SheilaT]

4. Depending on what period is covered. If it includes the years of the Potato Famine,

is is sheer ignorance of the enormity of the famine and the English government standing by while Irish starved to say that there was no difference between the motivations for emigration between the English and the Irish. Unless there was some disastrous famine in England that has somehow escaped notice.

The population of Ireland fell by approximately half in the years of the famine, between the deaths from starvation and the huge numbers of those who fled. Even today, over 150 years later, the population of Ireland is still below its peak in about 1841.