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

Guinness, Arthur Edward; Hart, Antonia

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1785516094 ISBN 13: 9781785516092

Verlag: Abrams & Chronicle Books, 2025

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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.

 

"This book is far more than an account of the commercial success of Guinness; it's also a love letter to the city which produced it."

- The Irish Independent

 

"The definitive history of the Guinness brewing dynasty"

- The Irish Independent

 

"A fantastic book"

- RTE The Business

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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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The true story of how the Guinness family created the largest brewery in the world.

In this narrative non-fiction book, Arthur Edward Guinness, the 4th Earl of Iveagh and head of the Guinness family, draws on family letters, archives and photographs to tell, for the first time, the inside story of how the first four generations of Guinnesses, starting from humble origins in Ireland, created the world’s largest brewery and perhaps the most iconic beer ever.

He explores the contrasting personalities o

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Abrams & Chronicle Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2025
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1785516094
• ISBN 13: 9781785516092
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 240
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: preigu GmbH & Co. KG; mail@preigu.de; ; Lengericher Landstr. 19; Osnabrück; Niedersachsen; 49078; Deutschland