Image source, Jude Harrison Image caption, 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.
For Nash, the project was also deeply personal.
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.
"When I'm saying the English don't know their history, I'm also English.
"So I'm saying, I don't know my history… and I want to learn."
Image source, Ellius Grace Image caption, Nash, who released her debut album almost 20 years ago, says her latest project is hugely personal
Nash's debut album Made of Bricks came out in 2007 and spawned her biggest hit, Foundations.
She's since released four more studio albums, including 9 Sad Symphonies in 2024.
While working in the United States more than a decade ago, Kate met music producer Kool Kojak and was encouraged to explore her Irish heritage through music.
After O'Connor's death in 2023, he suggested recording Famine.
"I was like, 'oh my God, that's so audacious, only an American could suggest that'," Nash said.
"The tradition of covering old folk songs, passing music through is really important. And the more people that cover that song really the better, because you can bring that message, the education, to a new audience."
Rather than simply replicate the original, Nash rewrote parts of the song and added a new verse reflecting her own experience of dual identity.
"England doesn't take responsibility for destruction that it's caused, for its empire and now commonwealth, they left us uninformed", she sings, echoing wider debates about how Britain's imperial past is taught and remembered.
Enda Delaney, professor of modern history and director of research at the Edinburgh Futures Institute, believes Nash's point of view is "fair comment".
Unlike in the Republic of Ireland, he said, Anglo-Irish history is not routinely taught to English students, creating a gap in public understanding.
"The fact that one million people died in a part of the United Kingdom, which of course Ireland was in the 1840s... there isn't a really good knowledge of the context in which those terrible events occurred."
He said there should be greater emphasis on Irish history in schools and pointed to growing interest in the subject at university level.
"When you've got…