These are all pictures which I purloined from the “Dwyers of Cork” book which Mary Leland wrote about 5 years ago.

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.
(It was bulldozed last year)

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