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01 December 2017

Isabel Hurley on 01 Dec 2017

BOOK LAUNCH: Crowds flock to hunting book launch

An enormous crowd of well over 400 people flocked to the Dunraven Arms for the launch of Catherine Power's hunting book, Memoirs of a Foxhunting Photographer

Isabel Hurley

1 December 2017

Chris Ryan of the Scarteens speaking at the launch of Catherine Power's book Memoirs of a Foxhunting Photographer in the Dunraven Arms

Happy family: Richard Power with his parents Catherine and Dickie, their daughter Joan Power and her husband Aston Carter at the launch of Catherine's hunting book in the Dunraven Arms

Pictured at Catherine Power's hunting book launch in the Dunraven Arms were (l-r) James Reardon, Leo Powell, editor of The Irish Field, Dr Matt Corcoran and Michael Ryan

Catherine Power with Billy and Margaret Peacocke, Billy first planted the seed for the book in Catherine's mind

Pictured at Catherine Power's hunting book launch in the Dunraven Arms were Catherine, her sister Ann Mulcahy, Kate and Jim Nicholson

Three sisters: Frances Hennessy, Liz O' Callaghan and Sarah Mulcahy at the launch of Memoirs of a Foxhunting Photographer in the Dunravan Arms

Catherine Power with Lady Ana Johnson MFH , her two small daughters, and her mother Lady Geraldine Dunraven

Louis Murphy of the Dunraven Arms with Catherine Power at the launch of her book Memoirs of a Foxhunting Memoirs

Abbeyleix equestrian artist Liam Clancy with his wife Aurore and children Harry and Fleurette at Catherine Power's hunting book launch

Andrew McNamara, Vera Hynes and Kathleen McNamara pictured in the Dunraven Arms at the launch of Catherine Power's hunting book Memoirs of a Foxhunting Photographer

BLINK and you missed it – that was the speed at which hunting photographer Catherine Power’s first book sold out at Sunday’s packed launch in the Dunraven Arms.

An enormous crowd, estimated to be not too far shy of 500 people, turned out from across the country in a fitting tribute to a well known hunting couple Catherine and Dickie Power.

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