Marina Guinness, daughter of Desmond and part of the Irish brewing dynasty, has always been a free spirit. She tells Susan Daly how opening her house in Co Kildare to musicians such as innovative trad band Kila has brought her home to life By Susan Daly Saturday July 19 2008 The Guinness has settled. Marina Guinness, that is, descendant of the famous brewery family, bohemian beauty, mother-of-three and patron of the arts (although she hates that term). She has travelled some unorthodox paths in her life, but they have led her to one place where she feels rooted: her 19th-century house in Co Kildare. Pickering Forest House is a rambling, unruly jumble of a home, littered with paintings, several dogs, fine antiques, overstuffed sofas with their horsehair innards spilling out, teenagers and renegade musicians roaming around at...
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