The Irish Brandy Houses of Eighteenth-Century France Poetry asking fundamental questions about economics

asking fundamental questions about economics and the society in which we live

Micheál MacLiammóir

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in the fraught exchanges that make up our every relationship

The Irish Brandy Houses of Eighteenth-Century France Poetry asking fundamental questions about economicsThe 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