Mostly shore ballads, in part with melodies; includes historical notes. In the 1930s and 40s, Ranson travelled the Irish coasts to collect these songs. Many of them feature local tragedies and disasters.

  • The Alert
  • The Alfred D. Snow
  • The American Aginora
  • The Aranmore Disaster
  • The Banks of Newfoundland
  • Bannow’s Bright Blue Bay
  • Bannow’s Lonely Shore
  • The Beauty of Baltimore
  • The Belfast Sailor
  • The Blind Sailors
  • Caption Coulston
  • The City of Baltimore
  • The Cork Trader
  • The Courtown Fisherman (The Glenrose)
  • The Crosspatrick
  • The Cumberland’s Crew
  • The Emigrant (Ballyhack)
  • The Emigrant (Curracloe)
  • The Fair Do
  • The Faithful Sailor Boy
  • The Faythe Fishing Craft
  • The Fethard Life-boat Crew (4 versions)
  • The Fishermen of Wexford
  • The Flying Dutchman
  • The Glasgow
  • The Hantoon
  • Jack Barry
  • John Malone
  • Kelly the Pirate
  • The Kiltrane Boys
  • The Lofty Cavavaille
  • The Longstone Lighthouse
  • The Loss of the Albion
  • The Loss of the Atlantic
  • The Lusitania
  • The Mailboat Leinster
  • The Malahide Fisherman
  • Manning, the Pirate
  • Maritime Memories of Wexford
  • The Merman
  • The Mexico
  • The Middlesex Flora
  • The Montague
  • Moses Donohoe
  • New York to Queenstown
  • The North Star (2 versions)
  • The Onward
  • The Orphan Girl
  • The Ouzel
  • The Pandora
  • Paul Jones (2 versions)
  • The Pomona (2 versions)
  • The Poulduff Fishermen
  • The Poulshone Fishermen
  • Proud Flora
  • The Rathaspeck Boys
  • Saucy Ward
  • The St. Patrick
  • The Shamrock Shore
  • Sligo Shore
  • Some Ships in Port
  • The Spanish Ladies
  • The Spanish Privateer
  • Thomas Murphy
  • The Three Brothers
  • The Tinnaberna Fishermen
  • The Vivandeer
  • The Wexford Schooner
  • The Worthy Boys of Clone
  • The Wreck of the Eliza
  • The Wreck of the Kinsale
  • Appendix: Fragments; lost ballads.