While staying in the Gresham Hotel, Dublin in 1951, John Huston met some members of the Galway Blazers, who were having a wild time. He liked Ireland so much that he brought his family back in 1953. On seeing St. Clerans, he fell in love with the place instantly and decided to buy it from the Land Commission. After riding with the Galway Blazers for over a year, he was offered the position of Joint Master. He spent the best ten years of his life as Joint Master of the hunt. Huston once described St. Clerans as a wonderful haven and went on to say, “When I came back from a trip abroad and entered the atmosphere, it was a world apart”. Huston died in 1987, depriving Hollywood of one of its greatest legends.