Following the death of Patrick Boland (father of future MP and Olympic champion John Pius Boland),[1] in 1888 the company was floated by the executor of his will Bishop Nicholas Donnelly, his brother in law.
A number of members of the Boland family remained shareholders in the company.
[2] The company had a number of production facilities around the city such as the buildings around Grand Canal Dock including Boland's Mill as well as a distribution network.
Vans with the company name on it were a familiar sight up until the last quarter of the twentieth century.
Irish Biscuits were taken over by a number of foreign companies eventually ending up being owned by the French Groupe Danone.