Global Hangover: How the House of Guinness Became the World’s Most Intoxicating Metaphor
Somewhere between Dublin’s Liffey and Lagos’s Third Mainland Bridge, the phrase “House of Guinness” now carries a weight heavier than its original 1759 gravity. Once a humble brewery scribbled on parchment by Arthur Guinness—who, legend insists, signed a 9,000-year lease because even then the Irish hedged against Brexit—the name has metastasized into a multinational metaphor…