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 by Mahieu
As the song says, during daytime Molly was a fishmonger selling "cockles and mussles", but during nighttime, she changed her fishmonger clothes for some more reveiling things, stillettoes and fish-net tights.
This is the legend of course. I don't know if Molly Malone really existed, but she surely is a part of Dublin's history! The statue has been renamed "The tart with the cart". Leave a Comment Address: on the corner of Grafton and Suffolk streetDirections: close to Trinity College
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 Statue of Molly Malone by SabrinaSummerville
A song was written about Molly which is now sung all over the world and is recognised as the unofficial anthem of Dublin City. It's called "Cockles and Mussels Alive Alive Oh".
A statue of Molly has been erected at the junction of Grafton Street and Suffolk Street, just across from the main entrance to Trinity College University. It is hardly a coincidence that the stories say the students of Trinity were some of Molly's best night customers! Molly was renowned to be very well endowed, and it's a classic pose for male tourists to pose by the statue with their hands hugging her boobs! Makes a fun holiday pic alright. Leave a Comment Address: Suffolk Street/Grafton Street junctionDirections: This statue is at the very bottom of Grafton Street, just opposite the entrance to Trinity College.
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 The man himself by Cruefan
This was another statue that I was lucky to get a good picture of. For some people love to sit on statues and momuments in Dublin. Leave a Comment
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 by jo104
The statue portrays Molly as a busty young woman in seventeenth-century dress, and is claimed to represent the real person on whom the song is based. Her low-cut dress and large breasts were justified on the grounds that as women breastfed publicly in Molly's time, breasts were popped out all over the place
An urban legend has grown up around the figure of the historical Molly who has been presented variously as a hawker by day and part-time prostitute by night, or, in contrast, as one of the few female street-hawkers of her day who was chaste
Thanks to Mariajoy for the photo, it was so busy around the statue it was impossible for me to take a decent one
In Dublin's fair city,
where the girls are so pretty,
I first set my eyes on sweet Molly Malone,
As she wheeled her wheel-barrow,
Through streets broad and narrow,
Crying, "Cockles and mussels, alive alive oh!"
"Alive-a-live-oh,
Alive-a-live-oh",
Crying "Cockles and mussels, alive alive oh".
Now she was a fishmonger,
And sure 'twas no wonder,
For so were her mother and father before,
And they each wheeled their barrow,
Through streets broad and narrow,
Crying, "Cockles and mussels, alive, alive oh!"
(chorus)
She died of a fever,
And no one could save her,
And that was the end of sweet Molly Malone.
Now her ghost wheels her barrow,
Through streets broad and narrow,
Crying, "Cockles and mussels, alive, alive oh!"
(chorus) Leave a Comment Directions: From Trinity College head north for the river, cross over O'Connell Bridge and turn right. Custom House Quay its the next quay after Eden Quay.
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 Jim Larkin by CruefanLeave a Comment Directions: Right accross from the General Post Office on O'Connell Str.
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 Molly Malone in Dublin by MalenaN
The statue of Molly Malone is designed by Jeanne Rynhart and was erected to celebrate Dublin’s millennium in 1988. She is wearing a 17th century dress and is standing with a cart at the bottom of Grafton Street, near Trinity College. Leave a Comment
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 Molly Malone by Kodi01
She was a fishmonger by day and had another job at night. ;o) Leave a Comment Directions: From Trinity College head north for the river, cross over O'Connell Bridge and turn right. Custom House Quay its the next quay after Eden Quay.
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 Brendan Behan statue by Anglo-Dubliner
Ní fheicfimid a leitheid arís Leave a Comment Address: Royal Canal, Dorset StreetDirections: Royal Canal near Dorset Street
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 Daniel O'Connell statue. by cazz38Leave a Comment Address: O'Connell street.
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