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

Michael Moynihan: Why Cork's tiny statue of the mosquito that bit Oliver Cromwell could be a masterstroke

The proposal by Cllr Oliver Moran just needs to avoid some of the issues besetting other public art like the Dublin Spire, the Sonia O'Sullivan statue in Cobh, and the Púca in Ennistymon

'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.