READS IS THE HOME OF IRELAND’S OLDEST SHOP AND ONE OF EUROPE’S OLDEST BRANDS WITH A UNIQUE IRISH FAMILY HISTORY.
PREPARE YOURSELF FOR A STEP BACK IN TIME!
In 1690 WILLIAM READ, tenant-farmer from Oughterard near Ardclough and Grand Parent of one Arthur Guinness, supplemented his income having bought a license to brew and sell ale to King James forces. WILLIAM READ would not have sold someone else’s ale but would have brewed it himself, as many households did, as it was safer to drink than water. This is also the first written proof of any link to beer in the Guinness family.
The firm of Read Cutlers began as a small enterprise when in 1670 James Read purchased a knife and sword-making shop, complete with forge, in Blind Quay, Dublin (now re-named Lower Exchange Street).
READS IS THE HOME OF IRELAND’S OLDEST SHOP AND ONE OF EUROPE’S OLDEST BRANDS WITH A UNIQUE IRISH FAMILY HISTORY.
PREPARE YOURSELF FOR A STEP BACK IN TIME!
In 1690 WILLIAM READ, tenant-farmer from Oughterard near Ardclough and Grand Parent of one Arthur Guinness, supplemented his income having bought a license to brew and sell ale to King James forces. WILLIAM READ would not have sold someone else’s ale but would have brewed it himself, as many households did, as it was safer to drink than water. This is also the first written proof of any link to beer in the Guinness family.
The firm of Read Cutlers began as a small enterprise when in 1670 James Read purchased a knife and sword-making shop, complete with forge, in Blind Quay, Dublin (now re-named Lower Exchange Street).
READS IS THE HOME OF IRELAND’S OLDEST SHOP AND ONE OF EUROPE’S OLDEST BRANDS WITH A UNIQUE IRISH FAMILY HISTORY.
PREPARE YOURSELF FOR A STEP BACK IN TIME!
In 1690 WILLIAM READ, tenant-farmer from Oughterard near Ardclough and Grand Parent of one Arthur Guinness, supplemented his income having bought a license to brew and sell ale to King James forces. WILLIAM READ would not have sold someone else’s ale but would have brewed it himself, as many households did, as it was safer to drink than water. This is also the first written proof of any link to beer in the Guinness family.
The firm of Read Cutlers began as a small enterprise when in 1670 James Read purchased a knife and sword-making shop, complete with forge, in Blind Quay, Dublin (now re-named Lower Exchange Street).
READS IS THE HOME OF IRELAND’S OLDEST SHOP AND ONE OF EUROPE’S OLDEST BRANDS WITH A UNIQUE IRISH FAMILY HISTORY.
PREPARE YOURSELF FOR A STEP BACK IN TIME!
In 1690 WILLIAM READ, tenant-farmer from Oughterard near Ardclough and Grand Parent of one Arthur Guinness, supplemented his income having bought a license to brew and sell ale to King James forces. WILLIAM READ would not have sold someone else’s ale but would have brewed it himself, as many households did, as it was safer to drink than water. This is also the first written proof of any link to beer in the Guinness family.
The firm of Read Cutlers began as a small enterprise when in 1670 James Read purchased a knife and sword-making shop, complete with forge, in Blind Quay, Dublin (now re-named Lower Exchange Street).