About 10 years ago my brother-in- law Martin Lyes, who worked at that time for Enterprise Ireland, was on a trip to Scandanavia and decided to bring some books of Irish interest as a present to his colleagues there.
He saw a picture book on Ireland, called “Ireland Past and Present” which looked perfect for the job.
It was edited by the poet Brendan Keneally and on a quick flick through it seemed to satisfy all his criteria.
When he finally got to take a closer look at it he found the following photo inside;

It was a photo of all the Dwyer Family (even if you can only see Eileen’s ear!)
Because we had some of our own photos taken on the same day we were able to place it exactly at the Dublin Street Carnival of 1988.
Was it Deirdre’s Lion make up or our natural beauty that got us there?