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Autumn 2018 £3.00 / €5.00 Irish and C OUNTRY C OUNTRY S PORTS L IFE Irish COUNTRY SPORTS and COUNTRY LIFE 5.00 € 11 Volume 17 Number 3 Autumn 2018 £3.00 / Volume 9 771476 824001 The Great Game Fairs of Ireland 2019 Having delivered the largest ever ALL IRELAND 40th Anniversary Irish Game Fair in 2018 the Great Game Fairs of Ireland team intend to build on the huge publicity generated for Irish country sports and the rural way of life by organising two superb country sports and lifestyle events in 2019. The Irish Game Fair & Fine Food Festival Shanes Castle, Antrim, 29th & 30th June 2019 The Irish Game & Country Fair Galway Racecourse, Ballybrit, 15th & 16th June 2019 Previously staged at Birr Castle, Co Offaly the Irish Game & Country Fair has joined up with the Galway Homes & Gardens Festival to deliver a potentially huge IRISH COUNTRY LIFESTYLE FESTIVAL at the superb new venue of the world famous Galway Racecourse. For further details of these exciting events see our web sites coming soon: www.Irishgamefair.com www.irishcountrylifestylefestival.com www.countrysportsandcountrylife.com Tel: 028 ( from ROI 048) 44839167/44615416 E: [email protected] or follow us on Irish COUNTRY SPORTS and COUNTRY LIFE Contents 4 ROI Comment 64 The Pointer & Setter Early Circuit - By Hugh Brady 5 Northern Comment 66 The Last Safari - 6 Countryside News By Frank Brophy 23 The Taxidermy Association of 70 The Irish Fly Fair – Latest Ireland - By Ingrid Houwers Developments For Ireland’s 26 Irish Country Sports & Country Extravaganza Life Lifetime Achievement 72 A Hidden Gem Provides Idyllic Awards Angling - By Michael Martin, 27 40th Anniversary Game Fair Six Mile Water Trust Success - and a new initiative Front Cover: 76 Summer Mink Hunting in Cork The legendary International. Dual evolves! By Derek Fanning Champion David of Westley at Shanes Castle. 32 NEW PARTNERSHIP DRIVES 79 FISSTA’s News & Views ROI’S IRISH GAME & COUNTRY From an original oil painting by renowned Northern Ireland Artist - FAIR - DRAMATIC NEW 86 FISSTA / IFI John R. Moore LOCATION FOR FABULOUS EVENT 90 ‘Young Irish Country Sports 36 A Future for Woodcock - Writer of the Year’ - Winner Owen Williams Examines the Announced Prospects 92 Art & Antiques by 40 Calling Crows - Simon Everett’s Michael Drake on Decoys & Calls 96 Hunting Roundup with 44 Obituary - Alan Rountree Tom Fulton 45 *EXCLUSIVE* Pointer and Setter 99 Red Stag Stalking in Champion Stake 2018 - Sutherland - By Liz Edgar / Report by David Hudson Tweed Media Photography 50 Terrier, Lurcher & Whippet 104 Weever Fish & Seaside Show Roundup - ‘Delicacies’ - Johnny By Margaret McStay Woodlock Explores 56 Quinn’s Charity Show - Huge 106 Scattered Shots - A Walk on Turnout Boosts Cash for Autism the Wild Side With Initiatives NI Steven McGonigal 57 *ANNIVERSARY EXCLUSIVES* 110 A Little Known Story of Golden Retriever Breed’s Ireland’s Whaling - 150th / Ulster Golden By Derek Fanning Retriever Club 50th Managing Editor: Albert Titterington, ROI Editor: Derek Fanning, NI Editor: Paul Pringle, Associate Editor: Irene Titterington Publishers: (Editorial & Advertising) Country Lifestyle Exhibitions Ltd. Cranley Hill, 5b Woodgrange Road, Hollymount, Downpatrick BT30 8JE Tel: (028) (from ROI 048) 44839167 Email: Email: [email protected] Web: www.countrysportsandcountrylife.com ROI Office: ROI Office: Derek Fanning, E: [email protected] Tel: 05791 20003 Printed by W.&G.Baird Distributed by Easons (Dublin), E M Distribution Also Available by Subscription ISSN No. 1476-8240 The views expressed by the contributors are not necessarily those of the editor or the publishers. Whilst every care is taken to ensure that information published is accurate and reliable, the publishers cannot be held responsible or accept liability for any errors or omissions in this pubication. ALL RIGHTS ARE RESERVED. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form, or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise without the prior written consent of the owner. No liability is accepted for the safe custody of unsolicited materials and manuscripts. Publication of accepted articles is not always guaranteed and the publishers will not be held liable for any manuscripts, photographs or other materials lost or damaged while in their possession, although every care will be taken. The editor reserves the right to amend any such articles as necessary. Published in association with Ireland’s country sports and country living web portal www.countrysportsandcountrylife.com Country Sports and Country Life RoI Comment never attended the Game Fair in Shane's thrill and beauty of the chase. All worries Castle until this year. With such a fine and preoccupations were banished as we IFair taking place every year in Birr I felt, joined in the hunt with the pack, perhaps wrongly, that there was little reason participating in something which humans to travel north. 2018 was different of course, have done for countless millennia. This was with the Game Fair in Birr coming to an end happiness. in 2017 after a decade entertaining big We pursued up and down the riverbank crowds from all around Ireland. The Birr for two hours, the huntsman and his whips Fair was greatly loved by many people in the giving it everything. Eventually we gave the midlands and it was always a fantastic day mink best and decided to call it a day, our out. A lot of people were very disappointed stomachs rumbling for grub after so much when they heard it wasn't going to happen exercise, and for tea to quench our thirst. As this year. I looked around at the homeward bound foot I decided instead to travel to Shane's to followers I could see that people were tired experience the Northern Irish version of this fantastic day out. but very happy. Fair Director Albert Titterington told me that he loves Shane's Regular readers will know that I love reading hunting books as a location and I could see why. It is the ideal location for an and I often write about them. In recent months I have been enormous event like this. The logistics of things like reading several, including a 1908 book by Ludovick Cameron accommodating big trucks with their tents, trade stands and called “Otters and Otter Hunting” which is full of fascinating displays are simple enough. There is loads of car parking for information and insights about this long-dead pastime. But the general public. The ruins of Shane's Castle and the vast what we can no longer engage in we can still enjoy vicariously expanse of Lough Neagh are a picturesque backdrop. There is through either reading old books or going fishing or mink ample room for all the tents and trade stands. It's a venue which hunting, two riverine pursuits which bear some resemblance. easily handles many thousands of people. You would be very Cameron tells us that there is not much in the literary tradition hard pressed to find a better venue in the whole of Ireland. concerning the otter, probably due to the creature's secretive The weather of course was stunning for this year's Shane's disposition. He says the earliest reference to an otter in which increased the crowd numbers. It was a fantastic success European literature is contained in a medieval Norse poem and my wife and I loved our day wandering around taking it all called “the Second Lay of Sigurd Fafnisbana” which describes in. One of the things I enjoy is the witty repartee of the three Norse Gods coming upon an otter eating a fine salmon, participants in the main arena who really have their show down which it has just killed, and one of them slays it. The otter in pat. I also enjoy watching the gun dogs being put through their this instance was in fact a Norse dwarf called Ótr, who could paces, and browsing in the clothing and food tents. change into any form, and would spend his days in the shape The day after the Fair we put on our tourism caps and did a of an otter, sometimes eating fish. Cameron also tells us that in little bit of exploring of the Lough Neagh region which has lots his classic book “The Compleat Angler” Izaak Walton of old things, like castles and ancient sites, therefore we were describes in detail an otter hunt, in which we learn from the in heaven! phrase “all the horse are got over the water” that in the I have also enjoyed several days of heaven this summer seventeenth century people rode to otter hounds. Walton tells following mink hounds along the lush banks of rivers. As I us that the Master, “noble Mr Sadler” called the meet so early write this my face and arms are still sunburned and tender to the that he “prevented the sunrising.” The English Poet William touch after a long day hunting along a sun-blessed river. This Somervile (1675 to 1742), wrote a celebrated poem called “The was a section of the River Nore in south Laois and about 60 Chace” in which he described a otter hunt and memorably foot followers turned up for several hours of fun. For the first depicted an otter as being a “sly, goose-footed prowler”. four hours we walked the banks in quest of mink but found “In the realm of art,” says Cameron, “the otter, for all his nothing. Never mind. The chat was good, people were in handsome shape, and otter hunting, for all its picturesqueness, excellent humour and we were walking through an attractive have suffered much neglect.” However, he adds that otter pastoral landscape. But then at the end of the fourth hour, at hunting seems to have been one of “the earliest organised Poorman's Bridge, we heard a hound tentatively start to give sports indulged in in the British Isles.
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