The Mary Wallopers

The Mary Wallopers play Octagon in Sheffield on 19 October 2026, 19:00. The Mary Wallopers are an Irish folk music band based in Dundalk, County Louth. The band began as brothers Charles and Andrew Hendy with Seán McKenna, and expanded in 2022 to add Róisín Barrett on bass, Brendan McInerney on drums, Seamas Hyland on accordion and Finnian O'Connor on tin whistle and uilleann pipes. In 2026 the Donegal accordion player, multi-instrumentalist and song scholar Catriona Ní Ghribín (Catriona Gribben) joined the group.