Was Molly Malone really such a ‘Cailin Deas’?

The lyrics of the popular Dublin song published in the 18th century tell a different story. The wit who dubbed the statue of Molly Malone in Dublin’s city centre “the tart with the cart” may not have been far off the mark. A tiny 18th-century book has turned up in Hay-on-Wye containing the earliest [...]