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Podcast: Trinity Long Room Hub Podcasts
Episode: Guinness: A Family Succession – Patrick Geoghegan with Lord Iveagh
Description: Recorded February 2026.
In this in-depth conversation, historian and Director of the Trinity Long Room Hub, Prof Patrick Geoghegan, talks with Arthur Edward Guinness, 4th Earl of Iveagh, about his newly published book Guinness: A Family Succession: The True Story of the Struggle to Create the World’s Largest Brewery, co-authored by Dr Antonia Hart.
Lord Iveagh shares insights into the history and legacy of the Guinness family – from their humble beginnings in eighteenth-century Ireland to the creation of one of the world’s most iconic brewing dynasties. They discuss family archives, generational stories of ambition and innovation, and how personal histor...