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Irish Family Of Brewers: GUINNESS, gin'is, is the name of an Irish family of brewers. Arthur Guinness (f 768-1855) founded the brewing business in Dublin. After his death, his son, Sir Benjamin Lee Guinness (1798-1868), became sole proprietor of Arthur Guinness & Sons, developing an immense export trade. Lord mayor of Dublin and a member of Parliament, he restored St. Patrick's Gathedral in Dublin and was created a baronet in 1867.
If you find yourself in a mood to out-Irish the Irish, which I much doubt, you'll go for a blackthorn shillelagh as a take-home souvenir. The Irish themselves consider the shillelagh a sort of stage-Irish "prop."
Popular firms for Irish clothing and Textiles are: O'Beirne, Switzer and Fitzgibbon; Kevin and Howlin; and Tyson's (which likes to proclaim that it is favored by the Khans, Aga and Ali).
GREGORY, Lady (1852-1932), Irish dramatist, who made notable contributions to the Irish literary revival. She was born Isabella Augusta Persse on March 15, 1852, at Roxborough, County Galway, of a landowning family. In 1880 she married Sir William Gregory, a retired governor of Ceylon; after his death in 1892 she turned to literature. It was largely through her influence that the attention of Yeats and Synge was directed to the Dublin rather than to the London stage and that the Abbey Theatre was opened in 1904. As the theater's most active director, she fought the battles over such controversial plays as Synge's The Playboy of the Western World. |
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