The saint kind of makes the point fairly strongly.   He came here to Cape Clea,r off the Cork Coast, and said the firstmass in Ireland, but he had changed his name on the way across to Ciaran.   Whip or Whit Jamboree mentions our island of Cape Clear, but its one of the many crossing the atlantic songs, so fromwhich end does it come.   I suppose splitting hairs it might not be a shanty but a bit of a fo'cas'le song.   I know a man in his eighties from Schull, on our mainland, who says when he crossed the Atlantic in his early days it was difficult to find a ship without two or three "Capers" on board, but there seems to be no tradition of shanties left here.   I noticed a mention of songs in the Irish language, further up, any one know sources, preferably audio?