I’ve been wanting to do a series of prints based on Irish songs for awhile and finally finished the first this week. The original plan had been to screenprint this (I still might at some point) but for now it’ll be a digital print available next week.

The first time I heard “Molly Malone” was in grade school, when a folk group came to perform. The song was catchy, but I became progressively more and more worried with each passing verse as Molly’s fate was slowly revealed. I distinctly remember thinking that the happy go lucky tune couldn’t possibly result in something bad happening to its heroine, so image my seven year old horror when I realized Molly doesn’t make it.

It was a very long time before I could manage that song again. Luckily, I like it much better as an adult.