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1. What are some of the things that happened to the father to cause him to leave Ireland.
2. Why do you think the boy's mother died?
3. Other than the fact that the son bore his father's name, why do you think the widowed father
took such a young, feeble child to America?
4. Most of the one million Irish who emigrated to America during the potato famine were farmers,
yet they settled in industrial and port cities of the United States. Why do you think these people
didn't head west to the unpopulated frontier?
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