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Great Northern Harp

Great Northern Brewery, Dundalk — the malting floor.
Town
Dundalk
Established
1960
Origin
A Guinness venture
Emblem
The Irish harp

In 1960 the Guinness company opened a new chapter at the Great Northern Brewery in Dundalk, in the border county of Louth. The venture took its name and emblem from the Irish harp — a national symbol that had long been stamped on Guinness barrels.

The northern town gained a brewing identity all its own, and the harp, carried from cask to label, became one of the most familiar marks in Irish brewing.

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