Songs of the Wexford Coast

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 MontagueThe 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.