The Horse in Ireland.
Author: SMITH, Brian.
Dublin: Wolfhound Press, 1991. 336 pages. Illustrated. Hardback.
A well-illustrated book on Irish horses.
Chapters are:- 1. Horse Worship in the Earliest Times. 2. The Horse in Irish Celtic Society. 3. Christianity and Horse Ritual. 4. Irish Horsemen and their Mounts from Norman times to the Williamite Wars. 5. Violent and heroic Horsemen. 6. The Sporting Horse and Society in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries. 7. The Treatment of Horses in Folklore and Practice. 8. The Development of Racing to the Present Day. 9. Showjumping and Eventing.
ISBN: 0863271537
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