🇮🇪 Ireland
Oddlets from Ireland.
The Dancer Who Toppled a King
What does a woman do after horsewhipping a Prussian gendarme, a Ballarat editor, and assembling a private army of law students?
Mary Mallon Keeps Cooking
She gave her word, in 1910, that she would never cook again.
The Man Who Found a Taste for Digging
When the council rehoused him on the top floor of a tower block, it was specifically to discourage tunnelling.