We learned about the famine in school, I thought we learned about the end as well, but it was a long time ago. My memory of the Irish history course was that it was very concentrated on the violent and peaceful resistance to English rule, to the exclusion of any other events*, but it didn't go as far as blaming the English for causing the famine.
* ie the English Army was always seen as the people putting down the rebellions, it was never mentioned that a large number of the soldiers who fought in India and in the Peninsular War were Irish. And never mentioned that the Duke of Wellington was born in Ireland (Dublin obviously didn't really count as Ireland).
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Date: 2008-11-18 10:11 am (UTC)* ie the English Army was always seen as the people putting down the rebellions, it was never mentioned that a large number of the soldiers who fought in India and in the Peninsular War were Irish. And never mentioned that the Duke of Wellington was born in Ireland (Dublin obviously didn't really count as Ireland).