Molly Malone
Molly Malone , also known under the title Cockles and Mussels ( "Cockles and Mussels") is a well known Irish folk song and an unofficial anthem of the city Dublin . The ballad tells the story of a beautiful Dublin fishmonger who dies at a young age of an unspecified fever.
The song was written by James Yorkston (of Edinburgh ) around 1883. It was first published in Cambridge , Massachusetts in 1883 and in London a year later (by Francis Brothers and Day, 1884, London).
A monument erected in honor of Molly Malone in Dublin on the corner of Grafton Street and Suffolk Street is one of the city's landmarks. The statue was created by Jeanne Rynhart and erected in 1987 to coincide with the 1,000th anniversary of Dublin in 1988. The Dubliners like to joke about the representation as "Tart with the cart" or "Dish with the fish" or "Dolly with the trolley" ("the doll with the cart ”). In the course of the construction work on the LuasBX tram line, the monument was being processed until the end of August 2014. It was then temporarily placed in front of the Tourist Information Office (Suffolk Street). After the tram line has been completed, the monument is to be erected again north of its original location. This was originally scheduled for 2017, but the statue remained on Suffolk Street as of September 2019.
The ballad also became known in Germany in the version sung by the Dubliners .
The song was also used in the Stanley Kubrick film adaptation of A Clockwork Orange : In one of the key scenes, a drunken tramp sings the song.
literature
- Christa-Maria Suszka: The Song of Molly Malone. A true story. Aaronis Collection, Aspach 2011, ISBN 978-3-936524-39-0 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ William H Hills: Students' Songs . Moses King, Cambridge, Massachusetts 1883, p. P. 55.
- ↑ Cockles and Mussels (Molly Malone) . In: Folkinfo.org (quoting book by Sean Murphy) . 2002. Archived from the original on July 19, 2011. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved August 22, 2007. (Not available August 10, 2016)
- ↑ Molly Malone statue gets welded and waxed . In: irishtimes.com . 2014. Retrieved July 11, 2014.
