Hi. You didn't put the answer options, but I can help you by stating that what motivated John Francis Maguire to write "The Irish in America" was the fact that he was an Irish immigrant in America and was aware of all the suffering that the Irish suffered, either because of the British dominance, or because of the plague that almost decimated the potato that was the main source of food for the Irish, or, because of the prejudice that the Irish suffered when they migrated to foreign countries.
He wanted to show the world and especially America how resilient the Irish had been.
