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Cockles & Mussels, Alive, Alive-o!

By Edythe Preet

March/April 1997

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"She wheeled her wheelbarrow through streets broad and narrow, crying "cockles and mussels, alive alive o." – From the song, "Mussels and Cockles" that remembers the street vendor, Molly Malone. The Irish have been eating shellfish since humans first set foot on the Emerald Isle. Huge shell piles called middens have been found at every seaside archaeological site, … [Read more...] about Cockles & Mussels, Alive, Alive-o!

She Died Of The Fever

By Dr. John Froude

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Dublin as depicted in the song “Molly Malone,” and the fever that took her. Molly Malone “died of the fever” on June 13, 1699, according to the Dublin Millennium Commission, and there’s a statue on Suffolk Street to prove it. "In Dublin's fair city" The city wasn’t so fair in the 18th, 19th and first half of the 20th century. In common with other capital cities of … [Read more...] about She Died Of The Fever