Proposal at Cork City Council for a statue to commemorate the mosquito that bit Oliver Cromwell…
https://sluggerotoole.com/2026/05/14/proposal-at-cork-city-council-for-a-statue-to-commemorate-the-mosquito-that-bit-oliver-cromwell/
Posted by Breifne21
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I laughed reading the proposal but honestly, not a bad idea!
The motion will be voted on tonight.
It’s all very funny until they find that mosquito preserved in amber and reincarnate the cunt.
I mean, I don’t see a problem with this.
In fairness, it would be very, very funny.
A plinth out front with an extremely small statue of a mosquito would be hilarious, cheap and an effective tourist attraction.
Make it so.
Odd when they have so many street names honouring English royalty
Honestly, it’s great
Far more prefer this sort of public art than another 1916 average looking guy in a suit Greco Roman statue for pigeons to shit on.
Something to do with our identity and having fun with the concept of what’s meant to be a public installation
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Do we know what it looks like?
Imagine the embarrassment if we put it up and it’s the wrong mosquitto?
500 years ago lads. Let’s make a big effort to get over it.
https://preview.redd.it/7htq6s94c41h1.png?width=194&format=png&auto=webp&s=e2d7e4961b6cf35757a8aaeef362d36e8d83ba10
I vote for a giant one 🙂
Cromwell didn’t siege Cork, it (along with Youghal, Kinsale, and Rosscarbery) defected to Parliament. I don’t even think he was ever there.
I propose a second, extremely large mosquito to commemorate what a brilliant idea the first smaller mosquito was. Having two really cements the tourist value and we open a gift shop inside the big mosquito.
Watch Graham Linehan have a meltdown on Twitter about it.
I was under the impression that the spire was that mosquito’s proboscis