O'Brien, Lara

Lara O'Brien was born in Dublin and raised on the wild and wondrous hill of Howth, as in, Howth is Magic, a beautiful seaside town on the northeast coast of Ireland with cliff paths and moors of outstanding beauty. She grew up one of many children who were part of Howth Riding Stables, a barn for twenty-five horses, cows and a clever dog named Polly. It was an adventurous and innocent childhood. In the early 1990s the barn and land were sold with the promise of becoming a stud farm and was then quickly turned over to a developer. Planning permission was refused for 52 houses and since the econ...