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Molly Malone

Molly Malone (also known as 'Cockles and Mussels' or 'In Dublin's Fair City'), a song set in Dublin, which has become its unofficial anthem
(Wikipedia)

Jeanne Rynhart
Dublin Art Foundry
1988

Dublin - Baile Átha Cliath / Molly Malone

Description

Statue depicting Molly Malone, a fictional fishwife - "I first set my eyes on sweet Molly Malone, / As she wheeled her wheel-barrow, / Through streets broad and narrow, / Crying, Cockles and mussels, alive, alive, oh!" She died young, of a fever.

Dublin - Baile Átha Cliath - Molly Malone

Inscription(s)

MOLLY MALONE
unveiled by
BEN BRISCOE TD, TC, PC,
lord mayor of dublin
presented to the people of dublin
by
JURYS HOTEL GROUP plc
december 1988

Signature

Jeanne Rynhart 1988
sculptor JEANNE RYNHART
cast by dublin art foundry

Sculptor

Jeanne Rynhart (Dublin 1946 - Schull, co. Cork 2020), Irish sculptor of Bantry (Website – Wikipedia).

Sources & Information

Neal Doherty, The Complete Guide to the Statues and Sculptures of Dublin City (Blackrock: Orpen Press, 2015), no. C1.
Wikipedia, List of public art in Dublin.
h2g2, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition, Extended Dublin Statue Trail, Created Nov 19, 2002 | Updated Nov 25, 2014.

Locatie (N 53°20'37" - W 6°15'39") (Satellite view: Google Maps)

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