There is a well-known Irish Song officially entitled “Molly Malone” but probably better known as “Cockles and Mussels” that has become the unofficial anthem for Dublin. Telling the story of a fictional fishwife named Molly Malone, who wheeled her barrow through the streets of Dublin, selling cockles and mussels. The somewhat sad song mentions that she dies of a fever, and that her ghost continues to wheel her barrow through the city’s streets.
The popular hit song with its catchy lyrics was a smash for the Irish folk band The Dubliners and included the words, “In Dublin’s fair City, where the girls are so pretty, I first set my eyes on sweet Molly Malone, she wheeled her wheelbarrow, through streets broad and narrow, crying Cockles and Mussels alive, alive O”. Cockles and Muscles are still traditional Irish fayre and there are some local vendors selling this delicacy on the streets of Dublin.
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