Name: Molly Malone
Nickname: "Tart with the Cart" ^[1] or "Dish with the fish"^[2], "The Dolly with the Trolley", "The Trollop with the Scallop", The Flirt in the Skirt"
Where: Corner of Grafton Street/Suffolk Street
Coordinates: 53.3433;-6.2594Latitude: 53°20′35.88″N
Longitude: 6°15′33.84″W
Inauguration date: 1988 (erected during Dublin's Millenium festivities)
Sculptor: Jeanne Rynhart
Story: This statue is sure one of the most famous in Dublin. No walk through the city without a stop at Molly Malone at the south end of Grafton Street. Tourists like to take a picture here but it's not an easy one because of the close traffic behind, the parked bicycles and the competition!

The only time this statue will disappoint you is on an early Sunday morning, when sometimes you can find "pavement pizza" in the mussle and fish baskets Molly is pushing in her handcart.

After an Irish popular ballad "Cockles and Mussels" (1883), this piece is one in a series of famous Irish women to be modelled by Jeanne Rynhart, a Dublin born artist.

Molly Malone is something of an athem with Dubliners and late night revellers and goes like this:

Lyrics of Cockles and Mussels:

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".

She was a fishmonger,
And sure 'twas no wonder,
For so were her father and mother before,
And both 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)

Notes

1. ↑ the whore with the car
2. ↑ hot woman with the fish