From violence and explosions to “loads and loads of swearing”, “there are some things you expect from a historical drama written by Steven Knight”, said Pat Stacey in The Irish Independent . The creator of “Peaky Blinders” is known for his dark, gritty shows with glossy production values. “One thing you never expect, and never get, is fidelity to the historical facts.”

Knight’s latest “rip-roaring” show, “ House of Guinness ”, about the family behind the world-famous stout , is “hurling around falsities like barley grains in a brewery”, said James Jackson in The Times . “Or is it?”

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The series begins with a “full-blown riot” breaking out between nationalist Fenians and Guinness brewery workers in the streets at Sir Benjamin Lee Guinness’

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