‘Smallest statue in the world’: Irish councillor proposes monument for mosquito that killed Cromwell

A city councillor in Cork, Ireland is advocating to erect a public statue of a mosquito. It wouldn’t be a statue of just any mosquito , but the pest that some — at least in Cork–believe bit the English invader, Oliver Cromwell — sending him home to die of what was once known as ‘Cork fever,’ an old name for malaria.

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