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It is a semi-joke I often tell to my Irish in-laws, to which they usually laugh and agree. Despite not having any former colonies as such, the Irish diaspora in many places is absolutely enormous: the UK, Canada, US, Australia, NZ, South Africa, Argentina... Far more than the Welsh and even Scottish diasporas. How did an island on the edge of Europe whose population (Republic + NI combined) is only around 6-7 million become such an exceptionally important source of migration globally, especially since they never had any economic or military colonies?
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