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When an identity is contrived or reconstructed in exile after a long fallow period of nonidentification--as in the potato-famine campaign--it's bound to be more radical than the real thing, like the religious convert who becomes more zealous than those born into a religion.
But the potato-famine campaign, and the historical interpretation it aims to canonize, has more to do with the present than the past.