Ann Henning

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Ann Henning

Ann Henning Jocelyn (the Countess of Roden) was born in Sweden in 1948. She is a gifted woman: she has worked as an academic lecturing in Art History at Gothenburg University, is a playwright, and has translated books and plays from Swedish into English, as well as writing several novels, amongst which is the Connemara Trilogy. Ann Henning moved to Connemara after she married the Earl of Roden. She soon became involved with the local ponies, and started a training centre to add value to Connemara ponies before being sold by their breeders. Irish publishers Poolbeg commissioned her to write a book on Connemaras, and Connemara Whirlwind, based on her own stallion, Cuaifeach, was the result, followed by two other storeis.

The books are still in print, and are a very readable picture of Irish society and the havoc that can be wrought upon it by a stallion with a mind of his own.

Finding the books: the books are currently in print by Poolbeg in Ireland, and can be ordered from them. Older copies are easy to find, though The Connemara Champion is more expensive than the first two books in the series.
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Sources:
Ann Henning Jocelyn - biographical information
Ann Henning Jocelyn on RTE Radio 1
Currently in print by Poolbeg

The Enchanted Horse

Madge Summers inherits Applegate, a riding stable. She has wonderful dreams about the place before she gets there, only to find out it is extremely run down. So, she sets about sorting it out.

The Connemara Champion

Poolbeg Press, Dublin, pb, 1994,184 pp.

Julia O’Reilly is trying to bring about better conditions for Connemara pony breeders, but she is meeting a lot
of opposition, some of it from unexpected corners.

Connemara Whirlwind
Poolbeg Press, Dublin, 1990, pb, 201 pp.
Reprinted 1995

The beautiful, and very, very spoiled, Connemara mare Veronica is about to give birth to
her first foal. She is about to give birth, when her owner Marty spots the Cuaifeach, a wild
whirlwind, blowing towards the stable. Veronica’s foal, Cuaifeach, looks to have taken on

the wildness surrounding his birth, and his future becomes a problem until he meets Doreen.

The Connemara Stallion
Poolbeg Press, Dublin, 1991, pb, 224 pp.

Doreen now owns Cuaifeach, but she has decided she wants him gelded to make him a
better riding pony. Fate, however, has other ideas. Besides the problem of Cuaifeach,
things are not good for Doreen at home.

Bibliography - pony books only