Molly Malone
Cockles and mussels
Molly Malone is a traditional Irish song about a Dublin fishmonger who dies young and now wheels her barrow as a ghost, crying "cockles and mussels, alive, alive, oh!" The song has become an unofficial anthem of Dublin, and a bronze statue of the fictional Molly stands on Grafton Street.
The name sometimes refers to the song, the statue, or the idealized figure of a working-class Dublin woman.
- DublinIrish capital city
- cocklesSmall ribbed bivalves
- musselsEdible marine bivalves
- fishmongerSeller of fresh catches
- street vendorOutdoor unlicensed merchant
wheelbarrow · statue · Irish · Irish folk song · ballad · ghost · fever · streets · alive · vendor · seafood · cart · cobblestone streets · folk · song · crying · fair · city
social class and occupation
Molly MaloneQueen Victoria
Long-reigning British empress
aristocrat · noblewoman · duchess · landed gentry · heiress