Column: Through the past brightly, Aug. 16

Column: Through the past brightly, Aug. 16

In Dublin’s Fair City  where the girls are so pretty  I first set my eyes on  Sweet Molly Malone  As she wheeled her wheelbarrow through the streets, broad  and narrow  Crying “Cockles and mussels alive, alive-oh!” — James Yorkston from “Molly Malone”  (The unofficial anthem of Dublin and is celebrated with a statue, and an official day, June 13th. Actually the origins of this song are a little murky. For lack of any real clarity we’ll let James…