When I heard for the first time the song " Molly Malone ," I told my wife : It could be the same Irish anthem! Only later did I learn that this song is unofiziele anthem Dublin.

Karel

It's a Beautiful statue.

Thank you for posting I have always loved the song and now I have a face to go with it.

Hallo Freunde!

Kommentar von mir habe ich mit Google-bersetzer geschrieben und es gibt viele Fehler drin.

Entschuldigung,ich kann leider nur deutsch,tschechisch und russisch.

Danke fr Verstndnis.

Hello dear friends !
Thanks for all your comments to Molly Malone.Diese beautiful statue I have in Dublin in my super holiday fotografiert.Ich had no idea that the photo verursacht.Molly so large echo is supposedly in 1699 on the open road to cholera gestorben.Das song is fantastic (especially from Dubliners ) So thanks again , and I wish you nice day!
Karel Votanek

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qw7nSDMu0Ks

Links of my Clip-DUBLIN CITY

Also, Karel, das ist eine groe Reihe von Kommentaren in nur 9 Stunden!

I opened a thread in the Old Style Noter&Drone Forum with the file attached. I made it 3/4 instead of the 6/8, so any comments welcome!

@ John, Dublin is a harbour city, isn't it?

Well, however historically accurate or immodest her attire is, I think Wout's original point is dead on. Given that outfit in the rainy streets of Dublin, no wonder she "died of a fever."

But that outfit would certainly draw attention, and she was selling something, whether herself or those "cockles and mussels." No different than the St. Pauli Girl or those buxom ladies on fruit and vegetable crates. Sex sells.

I'm sure she's no better than she ought to be.

No idea where the idea that she may have had an 'evening job' came from, maybe the Dublin habit of finding alternative titles for their statues. She's known as 'The Tart with the Cart' by the locals (amongst less kinder nicknames).

Dublin's latest statue is known as the 'Stiletto in the Ghetto' (again, amongst less kinder nicknames), close on 400ft and the tallest in the world apparently

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I have a pdf for noter&drone in DAA, but the Comments don't allow attachments. Where, if needed, can I send it to?

Just for the record, the Hans Brinkers Saga (as it is called) is written by an American author named Mary Mapes Dodge, in which story the boy isn't Hans Brinkers at all. Hans is one of the children who reads the story about the boy putting his finger in the dike all night long. Anyway, dikes are not distroyed by water comming through its body, but going underneath by the pressure and make the dike collapse...

Thanks @ Wayne! Nicde article. And here is the Dutch Molly Malone, called Hans Brinkers...

To be sure Wayne, ain't it the truth that its not the actual facts of a story that count, but more the telling of it that's important ? God bless all here !

John

Anyway, some research on the net has taught me Miss Malone is not a historic person, but more the theme of a song for entertainment, more cabarettesque. Just a 'naughty' drinking song. The sculpturist is a woman, b.t.w., and there is an indication women of Dublin in that time (around 1700)were used nursing their children in public, which should explain the more open dress. I think that idea is a make-up, because who would believe that 10 years ago, when the statue was raised, the public knew that information? "Ah, she is a young mother!"

Wout, I see the dress as a 'selling' ploy ? (the statue also indicates why the wheelbarrow may have been necessary, she does seem to have a lot to carry around !)

John

Well, I don't know exactly either, but I don't believe that dress of her indicates poverty. At the other hand, I think the sculpturist also didn't knew how she was dressed, so it could be his interpretation of a very respectable fish selling woman, but Ialso think it is a double faced statue.

What I find interesting is the differences of feeling the two cultural expressions have and give, the song opposed to the statue. The first is rather innocent and thoughts about it like I describe would be obscure, where the second, the statue, is much more explicit:the beholdercan hardly suppress his/her thoughts.

Hmmmmmm! I suppose one would need to know what else she may have sold to alleviate her poverty before making an informed decision as to the precise nature of her 'fever' ?

JohnH

"From no one could releave her"...? A shortage of benzylpenicillin could also be involved... Like the sculpturist suggests the words "cockles and mussels" are known as verbal symbolic aphrodisiacs.

Judging from the statue, can I suggest it was a chest cold?