This is the first book to showcase second generation Irish writers in Britain. In the past many Irish immigrants kept their heads down but here second generation writers not quite British not quite Irish tell their own stories. Essays about music family and history lead into new fiction and poetry that take us beyond shamrocks leprechauns and pints of Guinness.The writers explore questions of identity and belonging and ask: where is home - here or Ireland?Ian Duhig charts how the tough-lived lif