Your Guinness UNION JACK rugby top has arrived at Cheshire Oaks Shopping Centre, Cheshire.

Ah here.

Thanks Wayne Murphy

Your only man.

From the Vintners’ Federation of Ireland:

Ah.

Tom writes;

Arthur Guinness was born on the 24th not the 27th . But surprisingly most people get paid on the 27th. Very Sneaky. Correct me if I’m wrong.

A city [Dublin] that was once host to over 30 breweries was now reduced to one. Guinness was so dominant in Ireland, that when it started its first advertising campaign in England in 1929 it felt it was a complete waste of money to spend anything in Ireland. Consumers either drank its beer or gave up drinking.

According to the “History of Guinness Advertising” it spent an average of £10,000 per year on marketing in Ireland between 1929 and 1959. Part of the Guinness strategy was whenever a small brewery closed or was bought out by it, its sales representatives were sent out to buy up all the memorabilia/posters etc. from the pubs that were previously supplied by that brewery.

In that way it could remove the history of that company from the popular imagination. Stalin employed similar tactics in Russia after the revolution, by removing people from photographs who had fallen out of favour with the new regime. Their history could be erased and they no longer officially existed. With Dublin reduced to one brewery, Guinness set about cleaning up the rest; Smithwicks & Co in Kilkenny, and Macardles in Dundalk were bought out in the 1960s. Beamish & Crawford, and Murphy’s in Cork only survived due to both of them having large tied estates in the Munster area.

 

Goodness.

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Thanks Rob

NF writes:

The Royal Naval vessel H.M.S. Pelican served with distinction throughout the Second World War, proudly claiming involvement in the sinking of a number of U-Boats. It was not all plain sailing however, the ship itself suffering major damage during an air attack in 1940.

Despite all this, it seems the crew still found time to produce their very own form of propaganda! I recently came across this wonderful Xmas Card, produced on behalf of H.M.S. Pelican. Inside of card reads ‘Best Wishes for Christmas and the New Year from H.M.S. Pelican. With acknowledgments to a famous Guinness poster’.

 

Via The Guinness Collectors’ Club