F. A. Waller & Co. Ltd., Banagher
Together with D. E. Williams Ltd. modern malting plants in Banagher were build in the 1950s. The Midlands Malting Co. Ltd. was incorporated in 1968.
The company Williams-Waller Ltd. was stablished as seed fertiliser and grain merchants in 1975 in corporation with D. E. Williams Ltd..
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
President of the Irish Republic, 1921-1922,
Fianna Fail Leader, 1926-1959;
Taoiseach, 1937-1948, 1951-1954, 1957-1959;
President of Ireland, 1959-1973
Secretary of Offaly County Council, 1920-1921;
Clerk of the Subcommittee of Banagher Refugee Committee, c. 1915
Parish councils were based on Roman Catholic parishes and were operating during the Second World War Emergency.
They were set up by Muintir na Tíre ( "People of the Country" - national voluntary organisation promoting community development) as an urgent initiative to deal with the threat of foreign invasion, food shortages and unemployment.