Brendan Burgess
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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.
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.