Research Catalog

Title

Arthur's round : the life and times of brewing legend Arthur Guinness / Patrick Guinness.

Author

Guinness, Patrick.

Publication

London ; Chester Springs, PA : Peter Owen ; Chester Springs, PA : Distributed in the USA by Dufour Editions, 2008.

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Details

Description

262 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps; 22 cm.

Summary

• "The life of Arthur Guinness, as recounted here by one of his direct descendants, is compelling proof of Dickens's dictum. Rising from obscure beginnings, Arthur laid the foundations for a world-famous brewing empire in Ireland's capital, but his story has never been comprehensively told - until now."
• "Patrick Guinness has reconstructed the life of one of Ireland's most celebrated yet enigmatic figures, bringing his ancestor, the brewery and the dynasty he founded - and the tumultuous times in which he lived - to life. Arthur is revealed as far more than just a businessman with a nose for a good brew, as he mingled comfortably in a society peopled with such illustrious characters as Wolfe Tone, Richard Sheridan and Samuel Johnson, but was no less at ease with the likes of the Turkish 'doctor' Achmet Borummadel, who turned out to be a Kilkenny conman named Patrick Joyce, or George Fitzgerald, the wastrel duellist who manacled his father to a bear."--BOOK JACKET.

Subjects

• Family-owned business enterprises > Ireland > History
• Beer industry > Ireland > History
• Businessmen > Ireland > Dublin > Biography
• Guinness (Firm)
• Guinness, Arthur

Genre/Form

• collective biographies.
• Biographies
• History
• Biographies.

Note

• Originally published: Dublin : Lilliput, 2006.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 245-251) and index.

Contents

1. Origins -- 2. Transitions -- 3. Childhood -- 4. Youth -- 5. The Start -- 6. St James's Gate and Marriage -- 7. Beaumont and Dublin -- 8. City Life -- 9. Problems and Solutions -- 10. Porter Comes to Dublin -- 11. Arthur's Patriot Politics -- the Kildare Knot and the Volunteers -- 12. Social Aspects of the Knot -- 13. Networks -- 14. Family Matters in the 1780s -- 15. Turning the Corner -- the Tax on Beer -- 16. Marriages -- 17. Politics and Identity -- 18. Rebellion -- 19. Revolution -- 20. Inheritance -- Appendix A. Measures and Currency -- Appendix B. The Tax on Beer, 1791-1792: The Underlying Statistics -- Appendix C. Family Trees.

ISBN

• 9780720612967 (pbk.)
• 0720612969 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^2008295861

OCLC

165408763

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library