Proposed: Monument to a Mosquito

To quote from a report out of Ireland:

A statue to commemorate the mosquito that may have killed Oliver Cromwell by infecting him with malaria in Cork is to be considered by Cork City Council.

It would be “the world’s smallest public statue,” and could be erected on an empty plinth outside Cork City Hall, Green Party councillor Oliver Moran said.

Mr Moran suggested erecting the statue as part of Cork City Council’s public art scheme.

He has proposed that Cork City Council “erect a statue to the mosquito or midge that bit Oliver Cromwell during the siege of the city, later causing his death through ‘Cork fever’ (malaria), and that this statue shall be ‘the world’s smallest public statue’.”