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the EPIC Museum tells the story of Irish emigration – the waves of citizens who moved abroad. "In many ways, the history of Ireland is a history of emigration," said Catherine Healy, historian ...

The flood of Irish emigration to America is reduced to a trickle. As Seán Ó Riain and Nessa Ní Chasaide point out in their contribution to the vast new Routledge History of Irish America ...