Chris McMorrow Artist
Paintings & Art Prints
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An original painting of the Molly Malone statue outside St. Andrews Church and Tourist Office on Suffolk Street, Dublin.
The statue was commissioned in 1988 for Dublin's 1000th birthday . It originally resided at the bottom of Grafton Street (see my other painting of it here) but was moved here so that work could be carried out on the new Luas cross city Tram line. The famous song about her goes ' she wheels her wheelbarrow through streets broad and narrow, crying cockles and mussels , alive-alive-o'. Legend has it that she was a fishmonger, as were her father and mother, plying her trade in Dublin's fair city. Dubliners have christened her 'the Tart with the Cart'.