Dundalk trad-rock outfit The Mary Wallopers have announced their third album, Paddywhackery, along with a headline European tour that culminates in a 3Arena Dublin show on Thursday December 10th 2026, with special guests The Coral.
The album follows 2023’s acclaimed Irish Rock’n’Roll and was recorded over two weeks in Liverpool with producer James Skelly (of The Coral) and engineer Chris Taylor. Skelly’s involvement makes the 3Arena pairing a fitting one.
Paddywhackery is due September 18th 2026.
The title is a deliberate provocation. “If people are going to call us paddywhackery anyway, we might as well just call the album Paddywhackery,” Andrew and Charles Hendy say. “It’s more of a ‘fuck you’ than anything else.”
Ahead of the album, the band have released new single ‘Crowns of England’, a London Calling-era Clash-channelling broadside about Irish emigrant identity in England and the alienating omnipresence of the monarchy.
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The accompanying video features actor Danielle Galligan wandering through London, directed by James Slater (Jamie T, Sam Fender).
Charles Hendy on Crowns of England: “The song is about being in England and feeling like an outsider in all that colonialism. And it’s about Irish people who move to London and then assimilate by trying to get away from being Irish. That outsider status could apply to immigrants generally, or even people from small towns moving into cities. England remains an archaic place in a lot of ways. There is still a monarchy. Every pub is called The Crown. There are flags everywhere. When we sing rebel songs in England, people don’t know how to react, so you feel like such an alien because it’s geographically so close but culturally there’s a massive gap. I mean, I went to Wembley to see Oasis once and a woman asked me if we had televisions in Ireland…”
Tickets for the 3Arena show are €46.70/€56.85/€62.35 including booking fees, on sale Friday June 12th at 9:30am. A booking service charge of 12.5% per ticket (max €10.50) applies.
The Mary Wallopers Tour Dates
Tue 13th Oct – Edinburgh Corn Exchange
Wed 14th Oct – Newcastle O2 City Hall
Fri 16th Oct – Cardiff University
Sat 17th Oct – Brighton Centre
Mon 19th Oct – Sheffield Octagon Centre
Tue 20th Oct – Cambridge Corn Exchange
Thu 22nd Oct – Liverpool Olympia
Fri 23rd Oct – Manchester O2 Victoria Warehouse
Mon 26th Oct – Nottingham Rock City
Tue 27th Oct – Leeds O2 Academy
Thu 29th Oct – Birmingham O2 Academy
Fri 30th Oct – London O2 Academy Brixton
Thu 10th Dec – Dublin 3Arena
Fri 19th Dec – Glasgow OVO Hydro
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