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.