Rare 18th-Century Book Reveals Earliest Known Version Of ‘Sweet Molly Malone’

“Unlike the famous verses bawled at sporting fixtures and stag nights, and in Irish-themed bars across the world named in her honour, this has no cockles, no mussels, no death of a fever, and no barra wheeled through streets broad and narra. But the singer clearly does know sweet Molly very well indeed.”