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Article: Guinness family's origins smaller beer than thought
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- Belfast Telegraph
- Article date:
- December 17, 2007
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Now the roots of Ireland's greatest family tree -- the great
Guinness brewing dynasty -- have been exposed as sprouting from more
humble beginnings than high-born aristocratic gaels, as was
previously believed.
DNA tests were carried out on the family's male Y chromosome in
Trinity College Dublin at the request of the Guinness family.
The analysis revealed that brewery founder Arthur Guinness's
claim that he was a descendent of the Magennis chieftains of Iveagh,
in Co Down, was wrong, and that the family sprang from the
subsidiary McCartan clan, a far less eminent family.
The discovery takes a hammer to Arthur Guinness's reinvention of