Today is the official launch of the book about my family in Cork.
Written by Mary Leland and called Dwyers of Cork
It tells the story of my family from 1820 when they set up Dwyer and Company up to the present day.

As a little taste I am going to post up a few random pictures from the book.

This is James Dwyer, the founder, my great great grandfather.
(And not at all unlike the person I face in the mirror each morning)

Walter, my Great Grandfather who had an eye for the ladies and whose three marriages (and consequent three families) proved in the end too much for the family firm to support.

His son Billy, my Great Uncle who made good his escape from the family firm to found Sunbeam Wolsey, probably the best known of the Dwyer Factories.

Some Dwyer and Co. workers having a day out in 1931.
(one hopes that carrying the banner was optional)

My mothers official engagement portrait in 1938

The family home, Tree Tops in 1950, ten years after it was built.

The Seven Dwyers in about 1953
(I am the little blond runt, clutching himself, at the end of the line.)

And now the commercial :

The book is currently available for purchase at Liam Ruiseál and Easons in Cork,
and in the Ardmore Pottery Shop in Ardmore.

It can also be bought directly from:

Mr Ted Dwyer
Unit 2
Nore House
Bessboro Road
Blackrock
Cork.

The book retails at €30.00.

Cost including P&P
For Ireland: €33.00
For Rest of Europe: €37.50
For Rest of World: €40.40

Cheques/ bankdrafts payable to:
Mr. Edward Dwyer

e-mail address for any queries:
gene@citylife.ie

Or you can order it here
at
www.amazon.co.uk
and at Kennys in Galway
www.kennys.ie