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COMINGS AND GOINGS 5

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Summary: The Emigration Agent

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Because there was such a tradition of emigration from Ireland which had really accelerated during the famine, every town had an emigration agent. Like a travel agent to-day the emigration agent would sell passengers tickets to North America.

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The Emigration Agent

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