Lyons Tea (Ireland)

Starting in 1904, J Lyons began selling packaged tea through its network of teashops.

Soon after, they began selling their own brand Lyons Tea through retailers in the UK, Ireland and around the world.

[7] The story of J Lyons is told in the book 'Legacy: One Family, a Cup of Tea and the Company that Took On the World' by Thomas Harding (writer) [8] A Lyons Tea sign is shown in the background in a scene in Castletown in The Quiet Man (1952), the iconic film directed by John Ford that starred John Wayne and Maureen O'Hara.

Again in Ford’s How Green Was My Valley (1941) an advertisement for Lyon’s Tea is to be seen in an early scene under the shop window near the church.

In Chariots of Fire, a Lyons sign is shown at Dover train station.