UK Deport the Irish?

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Any time prior to the acts Union, I'm curious if the England ever attempted to deport the Irish from Ireland while also encouraging their settlement policies in The Pale and the North.

With the establishment of the North American colonies, and the explusion of cultural dissenters such as the puritans, we're the Irish in Ireland ever pushed from the Isles in the same way?
 
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Lateknight

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They sort of did it's not forced on the boats but polices created a strong desire for the irish to leave ireland there's a reason there are more irish descended people in America then Ireland.
 
They sort of did it's not forced on the boats but polices created a strong desire for the irish to leave ireland there's a reason there are more irish descended people in America then Ireland.

Right but I thought it was because of the potato famine after the acts of Union when they became UK citizens.
 
I've considered the idea of Great Britain, after an invasion scare by Napoleonic France, or losing Ireland to rebellion, might deport the hundreds of thousands of Irish living in 18th and 19th century Britain to Ireland.

But kicking the Irish out of Ireland en masse is not feasible.
 

Lateknight

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Right but I thought it was because of the potato famine after the acts of Union when they became UK citizens.

I was thinking more about this http://blog.nationalarchives.gov.uk/blog/irish-indentured-labour-in-the-caribbean/. Indentured labor was sort of kinda forced deportation it's an ambiguous area because of the large amount of nationalist bias but it can said with certain there are clear pattern of British behavior that created a hostile environment for the vast majority of irish in ireland.
 
They weren't deported, per se, but very much encouraged to emigrate. For example, the British kept boat fares from Ireland to Quebec low as a way of encouraging the Irish to emigrate there, as a way of settling Canada with more anglophones. (Ironically, many Irish who settled in Quebec eventually intermarried into the French-Canadian population.)
 
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