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The Guinnesses : the untold story of Ireland's most successful family / Joe Joyce.
- Title
- The Guinnesses : the untold story of Ireland's most successful family / Joe Joyce.
- Author
- Joyce, Joe, 1947-
- Publication
- Dublin : Poolbeg Books, 2009.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Request in advance | CT867.5.G84 J69 2009 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- 390 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., ports., geneal. tables; 23 cm.
- Summary
- "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.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Biographies
- History
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 357-376) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Family tree -- Introduction -- 1. The end of an era -- 2. The first Arthur -- 3. The second Arthur -- 4. The first millionaire -- 5. The cunning brothers -- 6. The first Guinness scandal -- 7. Finding a home -- 8. Threats and fears -- 9. A new world order -- 10. Guinness is good for you -- 11. Adventures and misadventures -- 12. The seventh generation -- 13. Success and scandal -- Epilogue.
- ISBN
- 9781842234037
- 184223403X
- OCLC
- 471744320
- SCSB-12004962
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library