I'm sure that Shores of Erin was a mistake for Shoals of Herring just there - but see here The Soft Shores of Erin

To the soft shores of Erin I escaped one autumn day,
to ask her patient rocks and ancient hills to soothe my tired dismay.
And while the sun that had warmed the heroes
lit my lone and winding way,
among her cities, towns and people I did stray....