"3 statements here without a shred of evidence to back it up:"#
Are you serious?
Two years ago there was an avalance of information that emerged from the famine and its aftermath - all these points were argued to death on this forum
The details of the Irish being being used as strikebreakers in order to push down indigenous wages and conditions was used beautifully in Elizabeth Gaskell's classic novel, 'North And South'
The use of the famine to 'solve the Irish Question' was revealed when Government representative in charge of feeding the victims, Sir Charles Trevelyan's letter describing the Famine as "god's punishment of the Irish fro their indolent nature - published in full in Tim Pat Coogan's 'The Famine Plot
Racism toward the Irish has been a fact since Punch Magazines racist cartoons depicting them as subhuman monsters - right through to racist comedians like Bernard Manning and Jim Davidson
One of the most vicious racist of all the writers of the time was children's author, Charles Kingsley (of The Water Babies fame)
A wonderful thumbnail history of anti Irish racism (with illustrated examples) is to be found in Liz Curtis's ' Nothing Bu The Same old Story (with glorious illustrations)
What planet do you occupy
Try this for size
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/irish-butt-of-english-racism-for-more-than-eight-centuries-1342976.html
Jim Carroll