House of Guinness Recap: The Courtship of Arthur Guinness

Before that happens, the show visits Anne, who is traveling around Ireland and has arrived in County Galway. While the landscape is beautiful, the locals seem unhappy and unwelcoming. She’s in Cloonboo, a town deeply affected by the Great Famine of 1845-1852. Her driver explains that the people who still live there either survived the famine or emigrated to Boston. Concerned about potential hostility towards a member of a prominent and wealthy family, the driver assigns Anne two bodyguards. Most residents of Cloonboo don’t speak English, but luckily, at least one person there does.





