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Fenian: the anti-Irish history behind Kneecap’s defiant new album title

By Ciara Smart, Staff member, History and Classics, University of Tasmania
Irish hip-hop group Kneecap recently released their latest album, called “Fenian”.

A proud reclamation of a painful derogatory slur, Fenian is a word that connects Irish people to a history in which they were sometimes seen as less than human.

A title packed with meaning


The word originally comes from “Fianna”, which…The Conversation


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