“The Malahide Fishermen”

Description

On a calm November 18 "four brave seamen ... took their nets and line." Neptune, Boreas, and Death conspire to "rise an awful squall" and they "were lost here in Fingal" The four are named.

Notes

Malahide is in the Fingal administrative area on the County Dublin coast, north of Dublin city. - BS

References

  1. Ranson, pp. 14-15, "The Malahide Fishermen" (1 text)
  2. OLochlainn-More 56A, "The Malahide Fishermen" (1 text, 1 tune)
  3. BI, Ran014

About

Author: unknown
Earliest date: 1943 (Ranson)
Found in: Ireland