100 Years of Penny Dinners
In 2012, The Little Flower in Meath street is celebrating it's centenary. Here Tony Corcaran tells us more about the charity set up in 1912 to provide food relief for Dublin's poor and is still to day providing Dublin's most vulnerable with the Penny dinner.
More about Tony Corcoran
Written by Dubliner Tony Corcoran, The Little Flower Penny Dinners looks at the beginnings of The Little Flower, established in 1912 on Meath Street in the south inner city to help the vulnerable in society, right through to its present day role. Tony spent thirty-eight years working in Guinness and has also written The Goodness of Guinness, a book which examines the brewery's operation and the working lives of the thousands of Dublin people who depended on Guinness for their livelihood.
