Michael Moynihan: The irrepressible Corkman who roamed the world with robots

Waterloo was a disaster for Cork, not just Napoleon. I’ve heard people say that Cork didn’t recover from Waterloo until Apple located here

Neil Cronin unearthed the tale of Marsden Haddock while exercising his interest in local history.

For any man writing a city column, people who take an interest in that city’s local history are heroes.

Hence my interest in a new book about a Corkman who roamed the world exhibiting robots in the eighteenth century to wild acclaim and considerable financial reward.