Restaurant manager Robert Bowe, who has worked at the iconic lakefront hotel for a quarter century, remembers the arriving passengers. Newly minted Irish tycoons in their 30s, worth $300 million on paper, were eager to drop more than $1,000 a night to bed down in a 13th-century stronghold that became the Guinness family’s summer home, backdrop for the 1952

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