John D. Bowers
Profession and Company: Publican, Mullarkey’s Irish Pub.
How Do you Celebrate Your Irishness? By sharing Irish culture with the community on a daily basis through the uniqueness of our Irish Pub.
Name a Hero You Admire and Why? My hero is my wife Eileen Mullarkey Bowers. She had a remarkable career in education. Starting as a tutor, by the time she retired she was the assistant superintendent of the Willoughby-Eastlake Schools—one of the largest school districts in the state of Ohio.
Something People Would be Surprised to Know About Me…. I coached High School Football in Ohio on and off for the last 40 years.
Biography: Born in May 1954. My father was a Pipefitter and my mother a homemaker. I was the oldest of five children. Irish culture was important in our family. Graduated from the University of Dayton in 1976. Taught school for a few years before moving medical sales for the next 19 years. My father-in-law, John Mullarkey, was visiting from Philadelphia in 1994. He liked Irish music and we found that there were no Irish music venues on the East Side of Cleveland. That prompted an idea which became Mullarkey’s Irish Pub. My wife Eileen and my sons Brendan, Kevin and Trevor have been operating Mullarkey’ Irish Pub for the last 29 years. We have Irish music every Saturday Night.
