premise: The Anna Livia Fountain (nicknamed the Floozie in the Jacuzzi ) was unveiled in 1988 as part of Dublin's millennial celebrations; it refers to James Joyce's personification of the Liffey in Finnegan's Wake, and across the way, in Earl Street, his statue by Marjorie Fitzgibbon jauntily regards it.
hypothesis: The fountain is 500 years old.