Is Netflix’s House of Guinness a true story? Separating fact from fiction

Peaky Blinders Creative Steven Knight’s new Netflix drama, Guinness House, In May 1868, beer manufacturer Sir Benjamin Lee Guinness’s eldest son Sir Arthur in 1870 shows that attempts to become a conservative deputy for the city of Dublin.

Knight works with some real life characters, such as James Norton’s hard -to -nose family repairer Sean Rafferty. Wide narrative – mainly the Guinness family’s beer factories’ attitude on Irish’s drinking habits and the struggle to enter the profitable American market – is true.

Nevertheless, if you are expecting accuracy instead of entertainment, think again. Here are some of the inventions created for dramatic purposes, and a few things that actually happen.

First chapter

Wrong: Sir Benjamin had close Riots at the funeral of Lee Guinness

The show shows that Sir Benjamin’s funeral, which took place on May 27, 1868, is a rebellious relationship with the explosions of public disorder and burned effects. The reasons for this in the show were the support of the late boss’s British administration in Ireland. In addition, the Protestant belief of his family, the anathema of the Brotherhood of the Irish Republic, is a Catholic group that intends to the home rule.

In fact, service was not such a thing. A report Times On May 29, 1868, he called it one of the most impressive demonstrations of the most impressive people of this city in this city ve and said, “500 workers who offer a very respectable appearance were directed. Even if it allows some journalistic license, it is clear that the protests are relatively low.

Second part

(Mostly) right: Guinness left his length only to his biggest and youngest sons

Every good period drama has a “reading of the will” scene and Guinness House It is not an exception. In the second episode, the family joined the Benjamin Lee Guinness to explore how to divide the vastness, and soon learned that they all left their eldest son and heir to Sir Arthur (Anthony Boyle) and the smallest Edward (Louis Partridge).

The reason given to his second son Benjamin (Fionn O’s) was that he was only a drunk to throw the money and his daughter Anne (Emily Fairn) similarly to terrifying her daughter (Emily Fairn).

The biggest push of the scene is true. However, Arthur, who spent years in London after an ethon training, is at the risk of losing the legacy if he does not. In fact, his father’s request is actually “I hope that my sons will continue to continue the beer factory and work in question, and I hope I hope.” If both brothers wanted to solve the partnership, only 30,000 £ plus the share of stocks would be allowed: a large amount at that time, but if they stayed in the family business, much less than the large amount they will take.

The only big imaginary invention is that Benjamin is free of money because of his lifestyle and forced to go to London to find a job in the army. It is true that it is a gambler and to spend it and it is never seen as the possibility of taking over a family company. In fact, his father left £ 20,000 with the intention of spending money on a property or a business opportunity. Finally, he used the money to establish the money as a gentleman with a commission in the royal horse guards obtained for him.

(Probably) Wrong: Sir Arthur Guinness was gay

Sir Arthur Guinness married Lady Olivia Hedges-White (Danielle Galligan), the daughter of the third bandry Earl and a greatly reserved woman: after Queen Victoria, the Great Britain and Irish were believed to be the richest woman of the United Kingdom. However, they had no children. From these fine biographical details, drama is primarily gay of Guinness and the second Lady Olivia Mariage BlancIf we were the freedom to do the same thing, he was free to have his own secret relationship with other men.

The sexual freedom of this nature was absolutely unknown in London and Dublin’s highest halls at that time, but there was no evidence that Sir Arthur was gay. Undoubtedly, homosexuality was punished very harshly in Ireland at that time – the crimes of the 1861 crimes against the person’s law will be sentenced to disgusting crime committed by humanity or any animal… He will be responsible for life. ” If the richest man in Ireland were gay, he would be too careful not to exist any record.

Wrong: came as a guinness symbol with Edward ARP

Behind the Guinness brand is Edward instead of Arthur, depicted as presidential genius. However, its brightness did not extend the invention of the ARP symbol for Guinness marketing purposes. The war itself was an Ir Brian Boru War ve, a symbol of an Irish dynasty that has existed since the 14th or 15th century, and it was an undeniable understanding to associate her drink with this iconic ihlaals tokene.

However, it is not known who has the idea, and in any case, in a bottle of guinness, ARP is first seen in 1862; Edward Guinness six years before Sir Benjamin’s death at the age of 15.

Fifth chapter

(Partly) correct: Guinness family applied social housing for the poor

The story of the family who pays for social housing, which is very needed in Dublin, is not wrong in itself, but chronology comes out crazy. The show shows that Edward revealed the right idea, but instead of doing so in 1868, the first buildings opened in 1869, as it is known, the Guinness confidence in the housing of the poor was equipped with £ 250,000 in 1890 shortly before Edward rose to homosexuals.

In addition, the majority of the money (actually £ 200,000) was replaced by Ireland in London. However, Guinness partnership has endured and has been building houses to date.

Wrong: Edward had a relationship with Ellen Cochrane

Edward married Adelaide (Ann Skelly), a distant cousin, and finally had three sons. The series is not only Catholic, but also in love with the imaginary character of Ellen Cochrane (Niamh McCormack), a working -class woman who is a great advocate of Irish independence.

In fact, marriage was a happy marriage, seeing that both parties divided their time between Dublin and London and enjoyed a generous lifestyle in Grand Society.

Sixth chapter

(Mostly) False: Guinness switched to the United States

One of the ongoing sub -plans of the show includes the character of the Guinness, the unimaginable cousin of the Guinness clan, which pioneered Guinness’s imports to New York and gives the family a slice of the entire important American market.

Again, chronology is completely except for documented facts. Guinness was imported to the United States in 1817, sent to South Carolina on behalf of a man named John Heavy, the first eight barrel of beverages.

Until 1948, Guinness did not open the first beer factory in Queens, although he proved to be unsuccessful and closed in 1954. However, the connections between the United States and the “Old Country ,, the fact that Guinness is actually a national drink for the celebration of the Patrick Day in the USA – and in 2018, Digeo has now opened a new beer in Balim, now opened in Balim. The original Stout is still brewing in Dublin and is imported to America on the grounds that the main institution can produce beer at satisfying standards.

Eight episodes

Wrong: There was a assassination attempt about Arthur Guinness

The demonstration ends with a suitable tense set that Patrick Cochrane (Seamus O’Hara), the most impossible member of the Irish Republican Brotherhood to make a make -up or breaking speech to support Arthur’s political candidacy.

The episode is cut to black while a shot is fired, which means that the audience is not smarter about what is. However, historical precedent means that the result is more predictable than Knight may want. Arthur not only lived until 1915, but also had no such assassination attempt on his life, but his nephew Walter Guinness, Lord Moyne was killed in 1944 by the terrorist group.

Telegraph London

Guinness House It is now broadcast on Netflix.

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