"As 'House of Guinness' splashes around the old-school paddywackery, Mark Keenan examines Edward Guinness's true motives for building vast amounts of housing all over Dublin"
"Didn't you remember that we Irish love nothing better than to dress up in green, drink Guinness and fight with shillelaghs en masse; preferably to the raucous accompaniment of some diddley-eye fiddle scraping?"
"House of Guinness, the fanciful new Netfix series, presents a revival of the whole gamut of olde worlde British and American paddywack tropes in its depiction of Victorian Dublin."
"Albeit this time around, those diddley-eye 'scrap tracks' have been updated courtesy of Kneecap and Fontaines DC."
House of Guinness revives old-fashioned paddywack tropes to depict Victorian Dublin with modern musical updates from Kneecap and Fontaines DC. The depiction foregrounds stereotypical imagery—green dress, Guinness drinking and mass shillelagh fights—rendered in a theatrical, nostalgic register. Edward Guinness built extensive housing across Dublin, a project motivated by a mixture of philanthropy, social management and commercial interest. The juxtaposition of nostalgic spectacle and historical reality highlights tensions between national identity performance, class dynamics and the commodification of history through cultural production and urban philanthropy.
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