Titles by the Author

The Books

King of Diamonds

Ireland's most famous performance stallion. The latest data from the Irish Sport Horse Studbook discloses that the King of Diamonds line remains the most influential... read more.

The Modern Irish Draught

This book is about the Draught as it is today. It has been compiled from notes kept over a period of years by the author and from accounts submitted
by breeders and... read more.

The Irish Sport Horse

Ireland has been renowned as a horse breeding county for centuries. Now the military buying commissions of other days have gone and been replaced by... read more.

The Modern Connemara

This is a book about one of Ireland's national treasures - the Connemara pony. It is a book with a mission - to seek out performance in a breed which seems to... read more.

Pillars of Irish Horsebreeding

Nicholas O'Hare has been
writing about the Irish horse industry for thirty-five years. Pillars of Irish Horsebreeding is the fifth book in his series on the industry, its... read more.
The Thoroughbred in Sport Horse Breeding

The Thoroughbred horse has been the backbone of Irish breeding for centuries. This book traces the influences of the thoroughbred... read more.

The Boyle Inheritance

The Boyles are a landed family who have lived for more than three hundred years in the family estate at Strearnhill, near Navan, in Co Meath... read more.

Essences of Living

This collection of short stories by Irish writer Nicholas O'Hare is an attempt to portray in literary terms some of the influences which have impinged on the author's life... read more.

The Ballylally Races

Ballylally racetrack is a small rundown country racecourse owned by the Lally family and managed by Myles Lally. It faces closure until ... read more.

The Irish Secret Agent

A story set in Dublin and Ireland of the 1950s before Nelson's Pillar was dynamited into a heap of rubble in O'Connell street. The whimsical but lethal adventures... read more.

A Spy in Dublin

Major Charlie Hennell is a middle aged M16 undercover agent in Dublin in the 1970s. He has an easy, unadventurous life in the run up to his retirement until... read more.