Maybe some of your "missing" Irish went to America.... I discovered this while looking for something entirely different.
"From October 1831 through October 1921, the Boston
Pilot newspaper printed a 'Missing Friends' column with advertisements from people looking for 'lost' friends and relatives who had emigrated from Ireland to the United States."
The database actually covers 1831 to 1893 (with no ads for some years), as well as 1901 and 1913.Go to
http://infowanted.bc.edu This database contains over 40,000 records of Irish families that emigrated to the United States.
The database is sponsored by the Boston College Irish Studies Program and produced by the college’s Office of Marketing Communications. Based on
The Search for Missing Friends: Irish Immigrant Advertisements Placed in the Boston Pilot, published by the New England Historic Genealogical Society.
John
