Guinness is almost universally loved. It’s nigh impossible to walk into any British pub and not see someone supping on a pint of The Black Stuff. Trust me, I’ve done my research. But according to Steven Knight’s new Netflix series House of Guinness , that wasn’t always the case.

The eight-episode drama kicks off with the 1868 funeral of Sir Benjamin Guinness, the first Lord Mayor of Dublin and the man responsible for making his family brewery a household name. As his funeral procession makes its way through the city, members of the Irish Republican Brotherhood – a group of Irish men and women fighting for independence – attack the convoy, only to be brutally quashed by the Guinness family’s enforcer, Sean Rafferty ( Happy Valley ‘s Jam e s Norton , who has gone back to hi

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