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Williams-Egan Ltd. was founded in 1967 to merge the interests of D. E. Williams Ltd. and P. H. Egan Ltd. which were both companies involved in the wholesale of wine, spirit, mineral water and beer.
The whiskey production involved its own malting facilities within the distillery. D. E. Williams Ltd. started supplying malt in the 1950s. Together with F. A. Waller & Co. Ltd. the malting plants in Banagher were build. The Midlands Malting Co. Ltd. was incorporated in 1968. The Williams Group held 51% of the shares.
The barley was purchased via Williams-Waller Ltd. - seed fertiliser and grain merchants founded in 1975 in corporation with F. A. Waller. Suppliers were ca. 4000 local farmers.
The company supplied Guinness and additionally exported malt via Irish Malt Exports Ltd. (the Williams Group held 16% of their shares).
Greencore acquired the Williams Group in 1996 and hence the Midlands Malting Co. Ltd.. The closure of the Maltings was announced in 2005.
Irish nationalist politician, journalist, author, barrister and Irish Member of Parliament (MP) in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Fine Gael politician, T. D., 1921-1944;
President of the Executive Council of the Irish Free State, 1922-1932
Secretary of Offaly County Council, 1920-1921;
Clerk of the Subcommittee of Banagher Refugee Committee, c. 1915
President of the Irish Republic, 1921-1922,
Fianna Fail Leader, 1926-1959;
Taoiseach, 1937-1948, 1951-1954, 1957-1959;
President of Ireland, 1959-1973
Fianna Fail politician and T. D. (1918-1969)
The Banagher Improvement Committee was involved in the development of public housing, drainage and sanitation, local industries, electricity supply and street lightning, employment schemes, local infrastructure and the revival of Banagher Great Fair.
The Birr War Pensions Committee was established under the national Naval and War Pensions Committee.
