I agree with that. My comment was only intended to point out that bad blood between the Irish and England predated the potato famine by nearly 200 years.
My own Irish ancestors were landed gentry who had their estates seized by Cromwell. I’m sure the reason they left for the colonies was to start over. And since I have Scots Irish and English blood as well I’m on all sides of that civil war.
It might have been involuntary. The American colonies were the original penal territories for convicts/rebels from the British Isles. Australia became the principal British penal colony after the US gained its independence.