In the song, and then in bronze, she became an emblem of Irish culture and a permanent symbol of Dublin working classes.

But the famous Molly Malone folklore represented in her statue on the Suffolk Street in Central Dublin-Properly Young Face, Falcon’s Cocktail and mussels, low-cut dresses-a new element will be added: Wardens, provided by the Dublin City Council.

A statue was erected in life in marking the central figure of “Molly Malone” or “Kocles and mussels”, a song ejected during the celebration of St. Patrick’s Day around the world. The City Council announced on Thursday to respond to complaints about people, especially tourists, touching the statue.

More specifically, the problem is when visitors catch and rub the breasts of the statue, supposedly for happiness – something they do so often that its bust has become colored.

The flight attendants will be placed next to the statue for a week in May, and not only will be guarded, but will also try to educate tourists about this, the Council states. The city will also improve the damage to the bust of the statue, the procedure he had to repeat over the years.

Partially responds to the “Leave Molly Malone” campaign, led by Tilly Cripwell, 23 years, a last year student at the Trinity College Dublin, which is also a regular Bushker on Suffolk Street.

On Thursday, she welcomed her restoration work as a step towards correcting “physical and symbolic damage”, but is less impressed with the idea of ​​Warden.

“The management system feels like a figurative barrier, which wins the point, and the point is reform in thinking about behavior towards the statue,” she said.

People who come to see Molly Malone help that the Suffolk Street become a lucrative place to drive. Singing there, said Mrs. Cripwell, she could collect at least 60 euros per hour, about $ 66. But it became more angry when they saw tourists and night drunks disgust the statue.

While touching parts of statues for happiness is a wide tradition – the toes of St. Peter in the Vaticangroin 19th Century Journalist Victor Noir in Paris Father Lachaiseeven testicles Wall Street “Taurus for Charging” – Treatment of one of several Dublin statues of women hit Mrs. Cripwell as raw and sexist.

“I just started it more and more, and one day I just thought if I wanted to continue with the statue, I’ll have to do something about it,” she said.

For protest, Mrs. Cripwell used an alternative version of a popular folk song. “If she was there beside you if she was alive oh,” sang during one of her demonstrationsjoined by other performers. “Crying,” Stop, that’s enough ” – so leave Molly alone.”

In a song, which is unfortunate covered Joni Mitchell and Sinead O’ConnorMolly Malone is a tragic figure, a fisherman who sells his products on the streets of Dublin and eventually dies from fever. People have long discussed whether the song was based on a real person.

The statue, ordered in 1988, as part of the celebration of the 1,000th anniversary of Dublin, strengthens one specific version of the story, according to Research by Sean MurphyCity historian.

Authorities who planned the celebration suggested that they identified the real Molly, pointing to the records of baptism and burial of a woman named Mary Mallone, who was baptized in 1663 and buried in 1699 near the place selected for the statue. Mr. Murphy believes that, far from enough evidence: the name was common, he said, and the documentary evidence of the song has begun more than a century later.

“Me and others protested in the 1980s because of the statue, but they were neglected,” he said.

The statue design and publicity that surrounds it may have encouraged insufficient treatment, he added. He said that the sculpture represented Molly Malone as a “prosperous merchant who was free of charge as a prostitute”, something a historian calls “impeccable accusations.”

Mrs. Cripwell wants to provide a new chapter in dispute. Her campaign sought to place the statue on a podium, such as many Dublin heroic statues of men, although the city’s statement rejected the possibility as a “gathering”.

And instead of the flight attendant explaining the statue, Mrs. Cripwell says she would prefer plaque.

“People don’t know the story – is that invented, if it’s really, they don’t know,” she said.