The Involvement of businesses during the 1916

Rising Guinness

Arthur Guinness was a Unionist and disagreed with any

rebellion against the English crown. He even donated 100,000
to the UVF army in Ulster.
During 1916 trucks made by Guinness were converted into
armoured fighting vessels which the British army used against
the Irish Rebels, making them more likely to win.
It is also believed that Guinness were one of the few
companies who dismissed their workers who were suspected to
be involved in the Easter Rising.They done this because they
seen the Rising as disloyalty to his Majesty as quoted by IRB
member Robert Holland. Guinness also wanted to keep their
beer selling to the UK so their sales wouldnt go down in any
ways.
Even as late as the 1980s Guinness were reluctant to employ
people who had connections to the Easter Rebellion and also
the Troubles in Northern Ireland.Edward Guinness is recorded
saying that the brewery may have to emphasise facts that
Guinness was an English company.