‘House Of Guinness’ ending explained: Do the Fenian Brotherhood bring down the Guinness clan? 

**Warning: spoilers ahead**

House Of Guinness is flying high in the Netflix charts, but do the Fenian Brotherhood bring down the Guinness family by the end? Find out below.

All eight episodes of the Steven Knight-created show landed last week (September 25), and they follow the lives of the titular Irish brewing family in the 19th century in the aftermath of patriarch Benjamin Guinness’s death.

The show explores the “far-reaching impact of his will on the fate of his four adult children”, Arthur, Edward, Anne and Ben, played by Anthony Boyle, Louis Partridge, Emily Fairn and Fionn O’Shea respectively.

Speaking about the show, Peaky Blinders creator Knight told Tudum: “It’s the extraordinary story of a family who happens to be the inheritors of the biggest brewery in the world.”

“They’re young and are given the task of taking on this incredibly successful brand. The first priority is: Don’t screw it up. And the second priority is to make Guinness even bigger.”

In a three-star review of the show, NME wrote: “Compared to Peaky Blinders, we have here a much more interesting backdrop to a much less interesting set of characters. The result is a story that feels thin: characters you only half care about, depths that get skated over, and a style-over-substance pint that could have used a slightly better head.”

House Of Guinness ending explained: Do the Fenian Brotherhood bring down the Guinness clan?

In the final episode, Patrick Cochrane, a former close confidante of Arthur Guinness, is revealed to be acting under the orders of the Fenian Brotherhood, a radical Irish nationalist group that see the Guinness family as betraying the cause of Irish independence with their ties to the British establishment.

In the finale, Patrick slips into a political campaign rally that Arthur is holding ahead of the parliamentary election with orders from the Brotherhood to assassinate Arthur.

Fellow Fenian organiser Ellen blows a whistle as a distraction and Patrick retrieves a hidden pistol and fires it into the crowd as the screen cuts to black. Whether the shot is successful is left ambiguous, leaving the first season of the show on a cliffhanger, with the Guinness family’s power hanging precariously.

A second season of the show has not been confirmed yet, but given its ratings success, it appears to be highly likely, so fans will have to wait to learn if the Fenian Brotherhood have managed to assassinate Arthur.