Malahide Fishermen, The

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.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1943 (Ranson-SongsOfTheWexfordCoast)
KEYWORDS: drowning sea ship storm wreck fishing
FOUND IN: Ireland
REFERENCES (2 citations):
Ranson-SongsOfTheWexfordCoast, pp. 14-15, "The Malahide Fishermen" (1 text)
OLochlainn-MoreIrishStreetBallads 56A, "The Malahide Fishermen" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #9780
NOTES [16 words]: Malahide is in the Fingal administrative area on the County Dublin coast, north of Dublin city. - BS
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File: Ran014

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