Ireland - Cockles and Mussels (Song)

Cockles and Mussels
“Cockles and Mussels” is the unofficial anthem of Dublin City in Ireland. The song tells the story of a beautiful fishmonger called Molly Malone who offers her merchandise for sale in the streets of Dublin like her father and mother did. But she died young of a fever and so her ghost did her work.
Molly Malone is commemorated in a statue placed at the bottom of Grafton Street in Dublin, erected to celebrate Dublin's first millennium in 1988. This statue is known colloquially as "The Tart with the Cart". The statue portrays Molly as a busty young woman in seventeenth-century dress, and is claimed to represent the real person on whom the song is based. An urban legend has grown up around the figure of the historical Molly who has been presented variously as a hawker by day and part-time prostitute by night, or, in contrast, as one of the few female street-hawkers of her day who was chaste.