The Irish Brandy Houses of Eighteenth-Century France Poetry As a tenacious conspiracy

As a tenacious conspiracy

Alex – a vet who married her because her dancing ability eclipsed the class difference between them

Micheál MacLiammóir

tolerance and self-discipline in the face of relentless encounters across North America and Europe

The Irish Brandy Houses of Eighteenth-Century France Poetry As a tenacious conspiracyThe Irish traders in beef and butter who settled in the Charente area moved on to the rapidly growing brandy trade by the mid eighteenth century. As global demand for brandy grew with urbanization and economic welfare, so did new markets develop for those families with contacts in Dublin and Frances western seaboard. The struggles of families such as Hennessy, Saule and Jennings, Otard, Galwey and Delamain are described in the pivotal period 1760