Tony Corcoran’s grandparents joined Guinness in 1891, and his father started working for the company in 1924\. Tony himself spent thirty-eight years at Guinness, working in the Brewing Department, and latterly taking on responsibility for staff training. On retiring from the company in 1996, he set out to mine the company’s extensive archive in order to chart the history of the St James’s Gate Brewery and, in particular, Guinness’s progressive approach to staff welfare. He is currently working on a book on Guinness’s former chief medical officer, Sir John Lumsden.