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Composed by Sean Michael O'Boyle. Arranged by Edmund Forman & Peet du Toit. Contemporary. Score and parts. 7 pages. Peet du Toit #6072831. Published by Peet du Toit (A0.802636)."Molly Malone" (also known as "Cockles and Mussels" or "In Dublin's Fair City") is a popular song set in Dublin,
Ireland, which has become its unofficial anthem.
The Molly Malone statue in Grafton Street was unveiled by then Lord Mayor of Dublin, Alderman Ben Briscoe,
during the 1988 Dublin Millennium celebrations, when 13 June was declared to be Molly Malone Day. The statue
was presented to the city by Jury's Hotel Group to mark the Millennium.
On 18 July 2014, the statue was relocated to Suffolk Street, in front of the Tourist Information Office, to
make way for Luas track-laying work to be completed at the old location.
The song tells the fictional tale of a fishwife who plied her trade on the streets of Dublin and died young,
of a fever. In the late 20th century a legend grew up that there was a historical Molly, who lived in the 17th
century. She is typically represented as a hawker by day and part-time sex-worker by night. In contrast she has also been portrayed as one of the few chaste female street-hawkers of
her day.
There is no evidence that the song is based on a real woman, of the 17th century or any other time. The name
"Molly" originated as a familiar version of the names Mary and Margaret. While many such "Molly" Malones
were born in Dublin over the centuries, no evidence connects any of them to the events in the song.
Nevertheless, the Dublin Millennium Commission in 1988 endorsed claims made for a Mary Malone who died
on 13 June 1699, and proclaimed 13 June to be "Molly Malone Day".
A variant, "Cockles and Mussels", with some different lyrics, appeared in Students' Songs: Comprising the
Newest and Most Popular College Songs As Now Sung at Harvard, Yale, Columbia, ... Union, etc in 1884.
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