From the Library

between his houses in Co Meath and Rome. Until he was 86, he rode to hounds following their hair-raising chases across the Meath countryside, where every field division is a wide ditch. He still keeps two horses, and was recently given two delightful, but time-consuming, Arab fillies—a rarity in Ireland. He rides occasionally, and once in the saddle the aches and pains of age and old wounds disappear. As for the problem of his cataracts, “the horse can see perfectly well for me.” (O’Kelly, Sebastian. Amedeo. London: Harper Collins, 2002:313.)