House of Guinness: Netflix's 1860s Dublin drama

Netflix's eight episode period drama House of Guinness premiered on September 25, 2025, following the four adult children of Sir Benjamin Lee Guinness as they inherit the brewery and wrestle with business, politics and family rivalries in 1860s Dublin. Created by Steven Knight and led by Anthony Boyle, Louis Partridge, Emily Fairn and Fionn O'Shea, the series is presented as "fiction inspired by a true story" and is streaming worldwide on Netflix.

The series opens with the sudden death of Benjamin Guinness and the reading of his will, which sets off a power struggle among his heirs. Knight frames the drama around the siblings Arthur, Edward, Anne and Benjamin as they try to preserve the brewery, manage philanthropic initiatives and navigate the sectarian and political tensions of the period. The cast also includes a range of supporting characters, some drawn from the historical record and others created for dramatic purposes. Composer Ilan Eshkeri wrote the original score, and contemporary Irish bands appear on the soundtrack.

Knight has described the project as a mixture of fidelity to character and imaginative speculation, saying, "I would say there are two forms of reality in...