The Guinnesses
Subtitle: the untold story of Ireland's most successful family
By: Joe Joyce.
Publisher: Poolbeg Books
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Dublin
Language: eng
Number of pages: 390
ISBN-13: 9781842234037
Subjects: Guinness family; Guinness (Firm) -- History; Brewing industry -- Ireland -- History; Ireland -- Biography
Genres: Biography
Description: "The story of a family that turned a small eighteenth-century legacy into a huge twentieth-century fortune, creating one of the world's greatest brands. From modest beginnings in County Kildare, ... this ... tells how the Guinnesses wove their way to wealth and social success through often troubled times. It covers their roles in Irish and British politics as well as business and society and the scandals and controversies which sometimes embroiled them ... and the financial skulduggery which surrounded their final step into the ranks of the super-rich in the late nineteenth century"--Publisher's description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 357-376) and index.