Kate Nash will perform at The Mac as part of the fringe programme for the Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann

For her latest video Kate Nash collaborated with artist and activist Tia O'Donnell, who embroidered the phrase "The English Don't Know Their History" onto a duvet Singer-songwriter Kate Nash believes many English people are disconnected from parts of their own history, and her latest single is an attempt to start a conversation about why. She has recorded a cover of Famine, Sinéad O'Connor's 1994 song about one of Ireland's darkest periods, using it to explore wider questions about how Britain's role in the famine is remembered. Born in London to an Irish mother, she attended a Catholic school, spent childhood holidays in the Republic of Ireland and the first instrument she learned was the tin whistle, despite long claiming it was the piano. Revisiting the song more than three decades later, Nash said she was struck not only by its message, but by her little knowledge of the subject matter. "Sinéad gave me the whole history lesson that school never gave me, that I didn't really get at home either," Nash told BBC News NI ahead of a performance in Belfast as part of this year's Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann fringe programme. She is quick to clarify what she means when she says English people do not know their own history. Nash, who released her debut album almost 20 years ago, says her latest project is hugely personal