The Troubles affected people everywhere in different ways, so I agree with you.

Just to add a bit of personal here... as an American of Irish descent, I watched the bombings and the news and heard about it in my home. In my family (as, obviously, I can't speak for every Irish American family), we rehashed the stories of why our family came over here and our grandparents cursed the British, even though they themselves were born here in America.