The Irish Brandy Houses of Eighteenth-Century France Poetry Dreams of lurid success and

Dreams of lurid success and the bitter realities of isolation

Castle Rackrent (1800)

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The Irish Brandy Houses of Eighteenth-Century France Poetry Dreams of lurid success andThe 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