"The tart with a cart"

I have been told that’s the way Dubliners call the statue of Molly Malone.
Molly was a fishmonger’s daughter, very pretty and very young when she died. It seems she was only seventeen when she died of un incurable fever.
According to the legend, she was a very hardworking woman: selling cockles and mussels during the day, pushing her cart along the main streets in Dublin. She had a second job though: prostitute at night.
Lots of girls like Molly quite likely populated the streets of Dublin in the past centuries. So I believe that that is the reason why there is a statue of her in front of the Trinity College. She represents part of what Ireland and the Dubliners were in the past.
There is also a song telling the story of Molly and that is considered the unofficial anthem of Dublin city.

Here is a link to youtube

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdxLxnhGnvo