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In Netflix's House of Guinness, Anne Guinness (played by Emily Fairn) stumbles upon the Cloonboo, a town in County Galway, Ireland devastated by the Great Hunger that lasted from 1845 to 1852.
En route to Ashford Castle, Anne's carriage stops in Cloonboo. During her time there, she has a miscarriage and meets Sultan (Hilda Fay). Anne, then, vows to return to learn more about the town and the impact of the famine. The creative team, Fay says, "were very well informed, and it was a very sombre set, which I really appreciate as an Irish person."
Fay as Sultan in House of Guinness. Netflix
The Cloonboo scenes were filmed in Gwynedd, Snowdonia. "The landscape in far west Wales feels very similar to parts of Ireland," production designer Richard Bullock explains. "We really fought to include Cloonboo [in the series], because it gives a broader sense of the world we're showing and adds a spiritual dimension."
Anne on a visit to Cloonboo. Netflix
In House of Guinness, Cloonboo, the BBC History Magazine HistoryExtra notes, "is used to represent the many communities that were wracked by death and mass emigration. In the show, some members of the Guinness family are moved by the rural plight and turn to paternalistic philanthropy to ease both the suffering of the poor – and their own conscience." (As a note, Cloonboo is also called Cluain búgh, and spelled Clonboo or Clunboo.)
In reality, Anne "did champion a number of causes, including founding the St Patrick's Nursing Home in 1876 as a training ground for Church of Ireland nurses. The show also draws a direct line between her unnamed degenerative illness (in reality, she suffered throughout her life and died at the age of 50) and the sympathy she has for the community of Cloonboo."
As of 2011, there were 265 people living in the town.
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