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6 days ago

Cheers to 'House of Guinness,' which feels like an 1860s, Irish 'Succession'

A dynastic struggle over the Guinness brewery in 1860s Ireland exposes family scheming, inheritance control, gender bias, and the company's expansion amid political unrest.
fromIndependent
1 week ago

The real house of Guinness: 'I definitely think they thought of themselves as Irish... but we didn't want big economic and political turmoil'

A Netflix drama about them is on its way, but head of the family Ned Guinness has written his own history of the iconic dynasty. Here, he talks about his idyllic childhood in Farmleigh, the accusations of sectarianism his ancestors faced, why they opposed Irish independence and how the brewery almost moved to Wales
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