they just started to teach about the irish potato famine...7 years ago. There was a strong anglophile group involved in education, and most irish went to parachial (RC) schools.. but since the curriculum was for the state.. and the RC schools used the same books.. that little bit of history simply got recorded as " a record number of irish immigrated to US starting in 1848 and for the next 20 years.." with never a mention of why.. or what was happening in ireland at the time..


This sounds similar to the way in which the current US "war on terrorism" manages to avoid mentioning awkward details like NORAID, and the fact that US money has kept the IRA alive for decades.