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Trekking Cross Country Options Irish Horses |
Flowerhill Equestrian Center
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Horses have been an integral part of Irish cultural and social history since antiquity. These modest, co-operative and unassuming animals are so much part of everyday life that they did not excite comment, especially when compared with the superficially more glamorous, more expensive and flamboyant Thoroughbred. References to the Irish Draught abound in Irish Cultural heritage. In the much loved reminiscences of The Irish RM by Somerville and Ross, for example, there are numerous references to Irish horses. In the world of art, a particularly well known artist, Jack Yeats, features the Irish Draught in a number of works, notably Above the Fair, and Down at the start. He indisputably records the social and economic importance of the breed on the West coast of Ireland in Gathering Seaweed.
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