In 1928, Ireland experienced a documented case of fish rain, with small fish falling from the sky during a storm, adding to the long history of such events in the British Isles. The phenomenon was likely caused by a waterspout over the Irish Sea or nearby lakes. The event was reported in local newspapers and became part of Irish weather lore.

The Irish fish rain was noted in the folklore of the Emerald Isle, a land rich in supernatural and natural marvels. Irish poets like W.B. Yeats and Seamus Heaney, who drew deeply on the landscape and its mysteries, may have found in such events a resonance with the Celtic belief in the strange and the otherworldly.