It's not about your life being the consequences. It's about you not as soon as you moved out of South Boston being the butt of jokes etc. And the Troubles are

It's not about your life being the consequences. It's about you not as soon as you moved out of South Boston being the butt of jokes etc. And the Troubles are much nearer in time than the famine. There is a continuity of conflict you haven't had in South Boston compared to what was going on in Ireland. (Besides, not wanting to single you out, but I'm sure we could find many prevalent unhealthy resentments present in Americans in general, rooted in historical events.)