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Fenian (album)

2026 studio album by Kneecap

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 14, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
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Fenian is the second studio album by the Irish hip-hop trio Kneecap, released on 1 May 2026 through Heavenly Recordings. It is produced by Dan Carey. Preceded by the release of singles "Liars Tale", "Smugglers & Scholars", "Fenian", and "Irish Goodbye", the album contains 14 songs including collaborations with Fawzi and Lankum's Radie Peat. A European tour in promotion of the album is scheduled to start in June 2026.

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“Fenian (album)” enters the record as 2026 studio album by Kneecap. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Fenian, album and studio can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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This entry incorporates text from “Fenian (album)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.