Trip to Ireland #16

[Niblox]

Hi Tref

The more recent statues of Dublin (such as Molly Malone) have been rechristened by the populace of Dublin with their usual excoriating wit.

Molly Malone has become "the tart with the cart";

The statue of Anna Livia in O'Connell street, representing the River Liffey (a recumbent naked woman with water flowing all over her) is "the hoor in the sewer", or "bidet mulligan" (Biddy Mulligan was another well-known Dublin character);

The millennium clock (a digital clock submerged just below the surface of the river below O'Connell Bridge, counting the time to 2000) became "the chime in the slime";

A statue of two working women with enormous shopping bags became "the hags with the bags";

The statue of James Joyce became known as "useless" (a play on "Ulysses", his great novel)....

and so on...

[slohairt]

I wonder who was the model for the sculptor...

I can't tell you how many lewd pictures I've seen involving that statue. Alas, I cannot post them, for this is a family-friendly website!

[McClef]

I mentioned some of the Dub names for the statues in the previous set of pictures Niall but had to be a little circumspect in those relating to the Spire.

I will be pleased to discover where they site the Anna Livia one next!