The Jews were scattered to all parts of the world.They described this movement as the Diaspora.  Without its capital’ D’, the Irish have come to love this word of ancient Greek origins meaning ‘those who are scattered; a dispersion, as of a people belonging to one nation’. The Irish famine 1846-1850 caused by the repeated destruction of the potato crops had lead to some two million Irish men and women setting off all round the world, never to return. Even 60 and more years later the Irish still regarded emigration as a common-sense thing to do – and that in spite of the fact that the only available transport option was a long slow uncomfortable journey by sea
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This web site reports the history of  just one of  very  many examples of the Irish diaspora, which sprang for a single family  whose home was: