“The Juice”, The Mary Wallopers

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The Mary Wallopers are an Irish folk music group based in Dundalk, County Louth, originally consisting of brothers Charles and Andrew Hendy, and Sean McKenna. In 2022 the group expanded to include Róisín Barrett on bass, Brendan McInerney on drums, Seamas Hyland on accordion, and Finnian O'Connor on tin whistle and uilleann pipes. In late 2023, Hyland left to concentrate on his own music. McInerney had previously been replaced by Ken Mooney of The Urges. In March 2025, founding member Sean McKenna announced his departure to pursue his own music.

Charles Hendy has stated that the band's biggest thematic influence has been "reactionary stuff to poverty", while the band credit Jinx Lennon as being among their biggest musical influences. The Hendy brothers knew Seán McKenna from school, where an image of Irish revolutionary James Connolly on his schoolbag attracted Charles'  attention.

Their first album, the self-titled The Mary Wallopers, has been described as "raucous, fun and captivating". It is seen as having been influenced by The Pogues and Lankum, as well as embodying the "divilment" and "blackguarding" of The Dubliners. John Sheahan of the Dubliners disparaged the band as "mediocre musicians and singers" in a 2024 interview after playing with them on RTÉ.

In March 2023 The Harvard Crimson described their performance in Boston that month as "Merry Anglophobia".

 

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