An interesting paper about Dublin Manufacturing companies in the 1920s

Frank Barry of Trinity presented a paper to the Old Dublin Society recently.

http://www.irisheconomy.ie/index.ph...acturing-firms-of-the-1920s-the-presentation/

There are a lot of interesting snippets in it - mainly about the origins of names e.g.




Thwaite’s Mineral
Waters had been established by Dublin chemist Augustine Thwaite in the late 1700s.
Thwaite’s would amalgamate with a number of other firms, including the Belfast firm of
Cantrell & Cochrane, to form Mineral Water Distributers (from whence derives the name
‘MiWadi’) in 1927.

Brendan Burgess said:

to form Mineral Water Distributers (from whence derives the name
‘MiWadi’) in 1927.

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Brilliant. Thank you for that. I shall bore my entire family with this for days.

Thanks Brendan. That's really interesting.