Molly Malone
Molly Malone morreu jovem, depois de ter passado a sua curta vida a empurrar o seu carrinho de mão onde transportava o peixe de onde ganhava o sustento.
Para além disso, Molly Malone desenvolvia "actividades paralelas":
'Who is it?', someone asks. 'Tis Molly Malone the fishmonger, and she is no more', replies a young lad. 'God's judgment has come upon her', adds a plump housewife, probably the lad's mother, 'for as well as her trade of fishmonger she was a part-time hussy also'.
É de expressão mundial a música que a celebra, sendo tanto conhecido por "Molly Malone", como pelo pregão que ela usava para chamar a clientela: "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 wheel'd her wheel barrow
Through streets broad and narrow
Crying cockles and mussels alive, alive o!Chorus
Alive, alive o!, alive, alive o!
Crying cockles and mussels alive, alive o!She was a fishmonger
But sure 'twas no wonder
For so were her father and mother before
And they each wheel'd their barrow
Through streets broad and narrow
Crying cockles and mussels alive, alive o!Chorus
She died of a fever
And no one could save her
And that was the end of sweet Molly Malone
But her ghost wheels her barrow
Through streets broad and narrow
Crying cockles and mussels alive, alive o!Chorus
A história de Molly Malone, contada com mais detalhe, pode ser encontrada aqui.