Guinness: A Family Succession: The True Story of the Struggle to Create the World's Largest Brewery

Guinness: A Family Succession: The True Story of the Struggle to Create the World's Largest Brewery - Hardcover

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Guinness: A Family Succession: The True Story of the Struggle to Create the World's Largest Brewery - Hardcover

Guinness: A Family Succession: The True Story of the Struggle to Create the World's Largest Brewery - Hardcover

by Arthur Edward Guinness , Antonia Hart
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Book Overview

The head of the Guinness family tells the dramatic true story of how his ancestors created the largest brewery in the world.

Growing up at Farmleigh, the country house outside Dublin, Arthur Edward Guinness - Ned for short - was fascinated by the secrets and legends that surrounded the early generations of his famous family of brewers.

Against the backdrop of epic and convulsive times in Ireland and Britain, he explores the struggles and passions of his ancestors, who went from obscurity in Kildare to the pinnacle of Irish and British society.

Each generation confronted new challenges until the dramatic events when the author's great-great-grandfather bought out his glamorous older brother and floated Guinness on the stock exchange. Overnight Edward Cecil Guinness became Ireland's richest man.

This is a tale in which brewing genius, sibling rivalry, bounteous philanthropy, and astonishing social mobility are interwoven with historic national events, including the Act of Union, Catholic Emancipation, the Famine, the Home Rule movement, the Dublin Lockout, and ultimately Irish independence. It is the inside story, as told by Ned Guinness.
ISBN9781785516092
Author Arthur Edward Guinness , Antonia Hart
PublisherScala Books
GenreBiography and Food & cooking
FormatHardcover
PublishedOctober 2025
LanguageENG- English
Pages240
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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Guinness: A Family Succession: The True Story of the Struggle to Create the World's Largest Brewery - Hardcover

Guinness: A Family Succession: The True Story of the Struggle to Create the World's Largest Brewery - Hardcover

By Arthur Edward Guinness and Antonia Hart
About Arthur Edward Guinness
Arthur Edward Guinness, the 4th Earl of Iveagh, was born in Dublin, raised in Farmleigh and educated in Ireland and England. Ned is a farmer at Elveden, Suffolk and Co. Meath, Ireland. He is active in the promotion of Guinness beer, the interests of social housing and community amenities in central Dublin. Antonia Hart is an Irish historian and writer. She is the author of Ghost Signs of Dublin and The Commercial Lives of Irish Women 1850-1922: Business as Usual.
About Antonia Hart
Arthur Edward Guinness, the 4th Earl of Iveagh, was born in Dublin, raised in Farmleigh and educated in Ireland and England. Ned is a farmer at Elveden, Suffolk and Co. Meath, Ireland. He is active in the promotion of Guinness beer, the interests of social housing and community amenities in central Dublin. Antonia Hart is an Irish historian and writer. She is the author of Ghost Signs of Dublin and The Commercial Lives of Irish Women 1850-1922: Business as Usual.

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