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Which push factor contributed to an influx of Irish immigrants in the United States during the mid-nineteenth century?

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The Great Potato Famine of the nineteenth century. The Irish faced lots of disease and starvation during this time, and this mainly drove the emigration of Irish people to the United States.

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