There was no real Molly. Dublineers were not best pleased with the Floozie statue never being ones to waste money on art without reason i,e Martyrs fine art no! But the artist being aware of this set out to try identify a real Molly but only came up,with a few vaculy similar sounding names. However he weaved a good enough story about one of these being a poor put upon lady of the night with a suitable sob story, and Dubliners bought it hook line and sinker, so she's real enough in our Irish kind of reality