1: That has absolutely nothing to do with what I said.
Yes because what you said doesn;t really have that much to do with the potato famine since its root causes which lay in the agricultural and trade policies of british imperialism.
I mean we can go over the ins and outs of the act of union and how this affected ireland and what the exact legal status of ireland was and how the majority of the population being catholics had no place in it and so on but its just pedantry at the end of the day. None of it changes the fact that the conditions for the potato famine both within ireland and in terms of the export market and the disastrously slow response of famine releif were quite clearly created by british influence.
2: Do you know what Anglo-Irish means?
Its a fairly common term and generally refered to those of generally english descent who'd lived there a while and thus became ''anglo-irish'' in order to seperate themselves from the rest of ireland, who they considered to be culturally inferior, it also was often used more loosely to cover groups like irish protestants aswell.
If your still querying this, a simple search on google will provide you with further information
http://multitext.ucc.ie/d/The_Anglo-Irish
Spam sandwiches?
When were you in school. 50s/60s?
Na i was in juniors so that was early 90's, it was a historical re-enactment thingy we did at school.
A fight back against the commonly accepted view that it was all bad.
No its not the commonly accepted view and never has been. The british empire didn't really end until the early 60's. Since then the fact that we ran an empire that ruled over 1/4 of the worlds population is generally swept under the carpet, you get a bit from the pro-empire camp and a lot less from the anti, but generally the official line is to try to ignore it. Hence there are no memorials to 30 million dead indians in London last time i looked, no exhibitions on the horrors commited against the ''mau mau'', no attempt to look at the economic structure behind the empire or teach its failing in our schools.
Recently it seems it became less fashionable to ignore it and more fashionable in certain political circles to claim its something to be ''proud of'' which personally i just find ridiculous. Its most likely just the product of the string of military interventions britain and the US have been involved in recently, i would guess it'll slowly go out of fashion again in the next few years.