Hi Annraoi!

There are Irish traditional songs related to fishing (or fishermen) in one way or another. Many of them, I suspect, are about local disasters and have not achieved widespread circulation... a significant number of those would be in Gaelic.

If you have Colm O Lochlainn's More Irish Street Ballads, for example, you can take a look at "Reilly The Fisherman." "The Portrush Fishing Disaster" and "The Jolly Fisherman" are in Sam Henry's Songs of the People. See also Fr. Ranson's Songs of the Wexford Coast, if available. Healy's Irish Ballads & Songs of the Sea is still in print, I believe. At least Liam's Sister-in-Law was able to get a couple of copies when we were in Dublin at Easter.

When you travel around Britain, you find many fishing ports, big and small. When you travel around Ireland, you find a lot fewer... mostly smaller.

Happy hunting.

All the best,
Dan