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growing up second-generation Irish was, for Morrissey, ‘confusing’.25 The parents of Marr (born Maher) hailed from Athy, Co. Kildare, and settled – during the early 1960s – amongst a large extended Irish family in Manchester.26 Marr recalls that he was raised in a ‘young Irish community’, CAMPBELL PRINT.indd 45 21/09/2010 11:24 46 Ambivalence, unease and The Smiths and was ‘surrounded’, in his early years, ‘by Irish culture’, noting that ‘it does rub off ’.27 If this dimension of Marr’s upbringing was augmented by visits to Ireland, it was also maintained by his
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