Growing up at Farmleigh, the grand country house built by his great-great grandparents outside Dublin, Arthur Edward Guinness was fascinated by the stories that surrounded the earlier generations of his world-famous brewing family. In Guinness: A Family Succession he outlines the struggles and passions of his ancestors, who rose from humble beginnings in Kildare to the top echelons of Irish and British society. It’s a tale of brewing genius, sibling rivalry, bounteous philanthropy, and astonishing social mobility, played out against a backdrop of seismic historical events in Ireland.
Growing up at Farmleigh, the grand country house built by his great-great grandparents outside Dublin, Arthur Edward Guinness was fascinated by the stories that surrounded the earlier generations of his world-famous brewing family.
In Guinness: A Family Succession he outlines the struggles and passions of his ancestors, who rose from humble beginnings in Kildare to the top echelons of Irish and British society.
It’s a tale of brewing genius, sibling rivalry, bounteous philanthropy, and astonishing social mobility, played out against a backdrop of seismic historical events in Ireland.