Lucy Costigan

Glenveagh Mystery


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      Glenveagh Mystery

      About the author

      Lucy Costigan lives in Wexford and is the author of Strangest Genius: The Stained Glass of Harry Clarke (with photographer Michael Cullen).The book was short-listed for Best Irish Published Book of the Year for the Irish Book Awards in 2010.

       www.arthurkingsleyporter.com

      Glenveagh

      Mystery

      The Life, Work and Disappearance of

      Arthur Kingsley Porter

      Lucy Costigan

      First published in 2013 by Merrion

      an imprint of Irish Academic Press

8 Chapel Lane 920 NE 58th Avenue, Suite 300
Sallins Portland,Oregon,
Co. Kildare Ireland 97213-3786, USA

      © 2013 Lucy Costigan

      British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data

      Costigan, Lucy.

      Glenveagh mystery : the life, work and disappearance of

      Arthur Kingsley Porter.

      1. Porter,Arthur Kingsley, 1883-1933. 2.Missing persons--

      Ireland--Inishbofin. 3. Donegal (Ireland : County)--

      Intellectual life--20th century.

      I.Title

      941.6'930822'092-dc23

      978-1-908928-10-8 (cloth)

      978-1-908928-11-5 (paper)

      978-1-908928-16-0 (Ebook)

      Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data

      An entry can be found on request

      All rights reserved.Without limiting the rights under copyright reserved alone, no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in or introduced into a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means (electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise) without the prior written permission of both copyright owner and the above publisher of this book.

      Typeset by FiSH Books Ltd, Enfield, London

      Printed and bound by CPI Group (UK) Ltd, Croydon, CR0 4YY

      For Mike and Kathleen Costigan In love and light, always

      Contents

       List of Illustrations

       Acknowledgements

       Glossary

       Introduction

       1. The Search: Inishbofin, Co. Donegal, 8 July 1933

       2. Early Life:The Scandal that Shook Darien

       3. Coming of Age: Freedom and Vocation

       4. Establishing Roots: Marriage and Yale

       5. War and Separation

       6. Travels in France

       7. European Travels

       8. Elmwood, Harvard and Further Travels

       9. Accolades and New Horizons

       10. Depression and Confession

       11. Glenveagh Castle and Inishbofin

       12. Ellis and the Ménage à Trois

       13. Harvard Witch-Hunt

       14. Rendezvous on Inishbofin

       15. Disappearance and Inquest viii • Glenveagh Mystery

       16. Verdict

       17. Aftermath

       18. Legend and Legacy

       Notes

       Bibliography

      Illustrations

       1. Glenveagh Castle, Co. Donegal. Michael Cullen.

       2. Lucy and A.K. Porter at Elmwood, photograph, c. 1920. Harvard University Archives, HUG 1706.125 (15).

       3. Inishbofin Island, Co. Donegal. Michael Cullen.

       4. Arthur Kingsley Porter in a canoe, Lake George, New York, 1912. Harvard University Archives, HUG 1706.125 (2).

       5. Clockwise (left to right): Blachley Lodge, Noroton, Darien, CT; Timothy H. Porter; Schuyler Merritt; Interior of Blachley Lodge. Stamford Historical Society, from ‘Gracious Living in Stamford, Late 19th and 20th Early Centuries’, c. 1892.

       6. Letter from Timothy H. Porter to Kingsley Porter, dated 15 July 1886. Harvard University Archives, HUG 1706.110, Family correspondence and papers of Porter Family 1885-86, Folder 1892-93.

       7. Kingsley and fish at Boat House,