Dr Sean Campbell's forthcoming book Irish Blood, English Heart: Second-Generation Irish Musicians in England was featured in last week's Irish Times preview of new books for 2010.

The book draws on original interviews with several musicians, including Shane MacGowan, Johnny Marr, Kevin Rowland and Cait O'Riordan, and extensive archival research of print and audio-visual media.

Irish Blood, English Heart is described by Nabeel Zuberi as 'a valuable book on the Irish diaspora and the politics of post-imperial popular culture in the UK.'

He writes: "It reveals how Irish-English musicians struggled and succeeded in making the nation's multi-ethnic history and culture more audible and visible in a particularly inhospitable climate for the Irish. The book makes a significant contribution to the cultural history of the 1980s, and contains lessons for the present in which England and the United Kingdom continue to fashion other 'enemies within'."

For more information please contact Sean Campbell.

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