Tension Still Today

In class we talked about the potato famine and the English control over Ireland in the 1800's. Last year, my family and I went to Ireland for two weeks and then to London for a day. When we went to Dublin, I feel in love with the city and then went outside of Dublin and feel more in love. My favorite place was the Bay of Dingle. Throughout our stay local people would talk about the English in a resentful way, or more sarcastic jokes about them. While we were talking to the cab driving to the airport, we told our driver we were off to London for a day. He looked at us and said, "Why would you go to London, they stole our potatoes!"
When we arrived in London we told our cab driver there that we were just in Ireland for two weeks. He snapped back, "Why would you spend so much time there? All Ireland has is land and potatoes." In the beginning of the book we learn there is tensions between England and Ireland. England is taking over their land, killing their crops and pushing the Ireland population out. I think it is very interesting that still today, hundreds of years later, the Irish and English still have tensions for each other.