Causes of Irish Emigration
- Flight of the Earls
- Cromwellian conquest of Ireland
- The Penal Laws affecting non-Conformists (c.1715–1869)
- Irish Famine (1740–1741)
- Great Irish Famine (1845–1851)
- Irish Famine (1879)
- Economic history of Ireland
- Economic history of the Republic of Ireland
- The Economic War, 1933-38.
- "The Emergency" (Ireland during World War II)
- "The Troubles" (c.1969–1998)
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