House Of Guinness has become a huge hit for Netflix

We can’t get enough of Netflix’s salacious period drama House Of Guinness, which has been described by some critics as Succession meets Peaky Blinders – with a bit of The Crown thrown in, too.

The eight-part series is set in Dublin in the late 1800s, and follows the famous brewing Guinness family after the death of its patriarch.

If you’ve been loving House Of Guinness as much as the rest of the world, you’re definitely going to want to check out these behind-the-scenes facts about how the show came to be…

A real-life descendant of the Guinness family partly created House Of Guinness

Although Steven Knight is credited as the creator of House Of Guinness, the idea initially came from writer Ivanna Lowell, an actual descendant of the Guinness family.

Ivanna has revealed she was first inspired to write a TV show treatment about her family history when she caught an episode of Downton Abbey.

“Our family history was a lot juicier and more interesting than this – plus it was all true,” she told the BBC.

Ivanna’s initial treatment for the show was a bit different from the version that ended up on TV, though. For one thing, her version would have started by addressing the mythological and unproven tale of Arthur Guinness creating the famous stout after accidentally burning some hops.

Anthony Boyle in character as Arthur Guinness

After speaking with Ivana, Steven Knight was inspired by the Guinness family story to helm the show that would become House Of Guinness.

“Meeting her was the best bit of research imaginable because you didn’t just get the stories, you got the [family] confidence, and the spirit and the slight madness,” he said. “I was hooked.”

Steven went on to play around with timelines and characters, jumping further back in the timeline to Benjamin’s death, although the basis of Ivanna’s idea is still there in the finished show.

No, House Of Guinness was not really filmed in Dublin

House Of Guinness may be set in 19th-century Dublin and New York, but no scenes were actually filmed in either location.

The on-screen Guinness brewery scenes were shot around Liverpool’s Stanley Docks, with Cosmopolitian noting that film crews were also spotted filming at the city’s St George’s Hall and Liverpool Town Hall.

Stockport’s Underbanks area also doubled as Dublin, as the Georgian architecture closely mimics the look of the Irish capital in the 19th century.

The scenes set in New York, where Byron Hedges went to spread the Guinness lore, are actually in Manchester’s edgy Northern Quarter. The back streets of Tarriff Street, Paton Street, Dale Street and Back Piccadilly were used to help portray the American city.

Bangor’s Penryhn Castle doubled in the drama as the Guinness family home, Ashford Estate. For indoor shots, the show recreated the interior of Dublin’s Iveagh House inside Manchester-based film studios.

Director Tom Shankland explained to Reach why Liverpool and Greater Manchester were used to double for Dublin.

“It’s a working brewery and museum – not really the same brewery as it was,” he said. “There are some lovely iconic buildings in Dublin, Iveagh House is an iconic location, but we couldn’t realistically have filmed on St. Stephen’s Green. So, it became quite clear that we just weren’t going to get the 1868 Dublin we wanted.”

Despite being set primarily between New York and Dublin, neither city was actually used as a filming location in House Of Guinness

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