Oldest known version of ballad of Molly Malone finds new home

Book containing older and bawdier version of famous Dublin song is presented to Dublin Writers museumThe oldest known written version of the ballad of Molly Malone has found a new home in Dublin's fair city – as the song's lyrics describe it – despite some feeling that it represents a slanderous view of the fishmonger's character.The tiny 18th-century book – containing a version of the song that is almost a century older and considerably bawdier than the lyrics sung at Irish weddings and s...

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