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Article: Raise a glass and toast the remarkable Guinness family
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- Belfast Telegraph
- Article date:
- December 28, 2007
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The harp is internationally associated with Ireland, but through
Guinness, not through any efforts of the Irish government.
Guinness has provided the brand-image, the myth, the cliche of
Irishness: every Irish home rugby victory is recorded by cross-
channel journalists as the excuse for the Irish to down millions of
pints of 'the black stuff', (yawn yawn), or drink deep of the
'Liffey water' (ho hum).
To remove the imprint of Arthur Guinness from the foreign
perception of Irishness would be like removing voodoo from the image
of Haiti or clogs, dams and dope from the general view of the Dutch.
Yet foreigners may be forgiven for not knowing about Arthur
Guinness, his life and times: what is ...