Family’s Nazi link uncovered during writing of Beamish & Crawford history

Two historians who have written a new book on the remarkable history of what was once Ireland’s largest brewery, have unearthed a Nazi link to a member of one of its founding families.

Donal and Diarmuid Ó Drisceoil, who launched Beamish & Crawford — The History of an Irish Brewery in Cork last night, said they were surprised to discover during their research that Carin Beamish, the great-great-granddaughter of brewery founder William Beamish, married Nazi Hermann Goering, who went on to become commander-in-chief of the Luftwaffe.

Their book tells the story of more than two centuries of Cork’s most important brewery and the people who worked there.