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Celebrate 250 years of Guinness! There is absolutely no other company, industry, or premises more tightly aligned - indeed almost synonymous-with its hometown than Guinness's St. James's Gate Brewery and the town of Dublin. From the company's modest origins in 1759 to its heyday in the later 19th and early 20th centuries and its own continued strength in to the 21st hundred years, Guinness has already established an enormous impact in the city's economic, sociable, and social life. In this particular warm and attractive piece of record, Tony Corcoran examines the magnitude of the brewery's operation, and the working lives of the a large number of Dubliners who have depended on Guinness because of their livelihood, either directly or indirectly. The company's unusually intensifying treatment of its employees - health care, training, and property - is exposed in detail, as is the Guinness family's philanthropy and compassion to the less well-off residents of the town. Tracing Guinness's intensifying attitudes to their roots, Corcoran also explores the top roles of the strong-willed ladies in each generation of the Guinness dynasty. A labor of love, packed with anecdotes, humor, and historical insights into one of Dublin's most important and best-loved institutions. "Whenever I bleed, I am always astonished to see that my blood vessels is not dark-colored. Certainly, considering that I was born into two Guinness young families, got two Guinness grandfathers and five Guinness uncles, and was on the premises of Guinness before I could walk, I am as much something of Guinness as the dark-colored stuff itself." - Tony Corcoran
