Richard, Big difference is many of those of us in the States are from Irish backgrounds, arrived here starving due to the British inspired famine in Ireland, (wheat and corn shipped from Ireland to England).

Ask those living in Aden, India or South Africa their opinion of British rule and you may also find they refer to them as terrorists.

Yes the struggle in Ireland was funded from the States, just like in Iraq, to remove a government responsible for crimes against it's people. European courts of Human Justice upheld the cases brought against Britain.