Catchy Title, Great Story

We had the good fortune of meeting Dr. Bryce Evans at the Rocky Mountain Irish Festival. His book, How Guinness Saved Ireland, is a fascinating story of Ireland’s neutrality during World War II. Its fragile economy was saved, per Evans, by the export of Guinness.

There is a shorter account of the story at Irish Central. The entire book, though, is well worth the read.

Bryce is one of the many Irish who live in Liverpool. (I once met an Irish musician who was from Liverpool. I said: “Oh, you’re from England”. He responded: “I’m not from England. I’m from Liverpool”.)