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It could be as simple as a split between oldest sons (who inherited the family farm/business, and their siblings who had almost no prospects.
I would not be surprised if a large majority of those who emigrated to the USA during and after the civil war were those with a lesser stake in the status quo, lesser economic prospects, and disillusion with a political establishment who had traded their dream of a largely secular united Ireland with a much lesser 95% Roman Catholic dominated, conservative, repressive, 26 (out of 32) county state.
However I have never seen any data on the political allegiances of those who emigrated to the USA during this period, so this must remain a conjecture. Index of Frank's Diaries
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