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Inbunden, Engelska, 2025
189 kr
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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
Häftad, Engelska, 2025
163 kr
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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
Häftad, Engelska, 2026
123 kr
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THE IRISH TIMES BESTSELLER, NOW IN PAPERBACK.'A brilliant, entertaining read.' - Irish TimesThe 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, who went from obscurity in Kildare to the pinnacle of Irish and British society.In this bestselling account, he explores the challenges faced by each generation, culminating in the dramatic events when his 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.'The definitive history of the Guinness brewing dynasty.' – Irish Independent'A fantastic book.' –The Business (RTÉ Radio 1)'Really, really fascinating. More than a family biography, it's a book that positions Guinness and its commercial story against the backdrop of a city.' – Donal Fallon
Del 23 - Reappraisals in Irish History
Commercial Lives of Irish Women, 1850–1922
Business as Usual
Inbunden, Engelska, 2025
1 713 kr
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This book examines Irish women’s lives in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries from a new angle, investigating how they inherited, bought, or started up businesses. Some guided their operations to impressive profit and growth, while others coped with devastating failure. The many and varied primary sources which inform Antonia Hart’s research place all these businesswomen in public-facing roles, in commercial environments, making economic decisions and operating with autonomy which they sought out and claimed. These were not unusual women. They were present in the main streets of towns and cities, their businesses both visible and unsurprising to passers-by.Women’s businesses mattered. They enabled employees, both women and men, to earn their livings. They paid fees for professional services to accounting and legal firms. They contributed to the local and national economies. They provided training, and sometimes accommodation, for apprentices. Women’s businesses mattered in the credit economy, not only in their extension of credit for goods and services, but also in the form of collateralised loans, from the pawnbroker’s counter, while the Dublin pawnbrokers also contributed an annual sum to the city policing budget.In the context of well-ventilated ideas about what a woman should be, many girls grew up seeing their teachers, mothers, sisters, and neighbours bring pragmatism and creativity into commercial lives. This book shows how private realities diverged from public ideals, and describes for the first time a robust and intriguing national heritage of Irish female entrepreneurship.