and Tres Connaghan, Events Manager, for your kind use of the castle for photography and the use of material in the Glenveagh Archives;
James Laidlaw Dickson, Sales Executive at Execflyer Charter Helicopter Flights, for coming on board as part of the team;
Patrick Hogan, for sharing your photography skills and for all your support;
Dick Walsh, General Manager of the Talbot Hotel, Wexford Town, and all the wonderful staff there who have looked after the Arthur Kingsley Porter team over many years during our project meetings;
Michael Heaney, Director of Community, Culture and Planning with Donegal County Council;
Charles Sweeney, Donegal Community and Enterprise Administrative Officer;
Joeleen McDermot, of Donegal County Council for all your great ideas and enthusiasm to promote the Project in Donegal;
Noel McBride, Councillor in Donegal;
Padraig Doherty, Councillor in Donegal;
Helena McClafferty and Paddy McHugh from An TSean Bheairic, Falcarragh, Co. Donegal;
Tony Walsh, Media Spokesperson for the Arthur Kingsley Porter Project, for your invaluable support, your infectious enthusiasm and for your kindness and friendship;
Margo Doyle, Principal Dealer and Marketing Manager for Slaney View Motors, Honda stockists, and for sponsorship of the Arthur Kingsley Porter Project;
Elaine McIntyre, Director of Sales, at the Radisson Blu Hotel, Letterkenny;
Martha Conover, from Martha’s Travel Corner in Illinois, USA, for developing unique tours based on Glenveagh Mystery;
Seán McElwee, General Manager of Óstán Loch Altan, Gortahork, Co. Donegal, for creating the Arthur Kingsley Porter lounge and library, and for your incredible vision;
Patrick Gallagher Travel, Churchill, Co. Donegal, and Gavin Boyce of Boyce Coach Travel, Letterkenny, Co. Donegal, for courtesy coach services;
The Shelbourne Hotel, Dublin, for generous sponsorship;
Dinny McGinley, Minister of State for Gaeltacht and the Islands;
The wonderful artists who have created unique collections of various exquisite artworks, inspired by the story of Lucy and Kingsley Porter, including Brendan McGloin, Lisa Mullin, Patsy Flood O’Connor, Carmel Grant, Liam Logue, Rónán and Conor McGarvey of Donegal Pens, Pauline Murphy, Kerstin Gronvall;
Helen McCleary, a poet of rare talent, for creating a collection of poetry in honour of the Porters;
Gearoidín Breathnach, a traditional storyteller or Seanchaí, for creating a collection of stories based on Glenveagh Mystery;
Ann Tuite, official harpist for the Porter project, for composing a remarkable musical piece to commemoration Kingsley Porter;
Melanie Porter Torres, Great Grand Niece of Kingsley and Lucy Porter;
Danny and Annie McIntyre;
Pusey Library in Harvard, Cambridge, MA;
The British Library, London;
The Brooklyn Museum Archives, New York;
The Director of the National Archives of Ireland and the staff at the National Museum of Ireland, Kildare Street, Dublin;
Orla Fitzpatrick, Librarian at the National Museum of Ireland;
Sean O’Gaoithin, Head Gardener at Glenveagh Castle;
Fr Ferry, for your generous help and support with the project;
John O’Brien, for sharing stories about Kingsley Porter on Inishbofin;
Ann Shields from Cumann Amaitéarach Drámaíochta;
Cormac O’Kane, Head of Design and Creative Media, at Letterkenny Institute of Technology;
Edmund Cassidy, for sponsorship of Elmwood Downs, Letterkenny;
Carmel Barron and the library staff throughout Co. Donegal;
Kathleen Hinds, creator of ‘Murder Mystery’, based on the inquest of Kingsley Porter, and the members of the Omagh Players’ drama group;
Noel McGinley, for your help and enthusiasm in promoting tourism in Donegal and Ireland based on the Kingsley Porter story;
Maura Aine Gardener and Joan Crawford, from Failte Ireland in Letterkenny;
Charlie McGinley, the Donegal Association, Dublin;
Nial Gibbons, Chief Executive of Tourism Ireland;
Siobhan McManamy, Head of Co-operation Marketing, Tourism Ireland, Dublin;
Theresa Farrell, Glendown Bed and Breakfast, Co. Donegal;
Una McGarrigle, Secretary of the Donegal Historical Society (DHS), for your help and wonderful contacts;
Barbara Kaye of the Stamford Historical Society, CT, for your helpful information on the Porters of Darien and Woodland Cemetery;
Steve Marburg, for your kind hospitality when we stayed with you in Maine during our East Coast tour;
Carol and Larry Williams, for all your generosity and kindness when you opened your Stamford home to us;
All of the Costigan and Cullen families for your love and support: Sharon, Paul, Damien, Sean, Kathleen, Lisa and Antoinette;
The special friends who are always so supportive of every project: Isabel MacMahon, Clara Martin, Carmel Larkin, Maura O’Connor, Rita and Jimmy Murphy;
And finally, a big hug for my royal companions, Lynsey, Sophie and Kila, and also for Tiger, for sharing all those early morning and midnight vigils.
Glossary
Altarpiece: A picture or relief representing a religious subject suspended in a frame behind the altar of a church.
Apse: A semicircular recess covered with a hemispherical vault or semi-dome.
Barocco: A picturesque, exalted, architectural style that prevailed in ecclesiastical architecture for two centuries and is most associated with Michelangelo, its creator, and with the architects, Bernini and Borromini.
Capital: Forms the top-most member of a column.
Caryatid: A sculpted female figure serving as an architectural support taking the place of a column or pillar, supporting an entablature on her head.
Cloister: A covered walk in a convent, monastery, college or cathedral on one side and a colonnade open to a quadrangle on the other.
Fresco: Any type of mural painting executed on plastered walls or ceilings.
Gothic: Architectural style that flourished during the twelfth century, and is characterized by pointed arches. The dates associated with the Gothic style are between the twelfth and the sixteenth centuries.
Medieval: A period in history that can broadly refer to the period between the fifth and the fifteenth centuries.
Mosaic: Art of creating images using an assemblage of small pieces of coloured stone, glass or other material.
Moulding: Process of manufacturing by shaping pliable raw material using a rigid frame or model called a pattern.
Portal: Opening in the walls of a building, such as a door or gate.
Relief: Sculpture where the sculpted material has been raised above the background plane.
Renaissance: Cultural movement that began in Italy and spread to Western Europe, spanning the fourteenth to the seventeenth centuries.
Romanesque: Architectural style developed in Italy and western medieval Europe, characterized by semi-circular arches and vaults and by profuse ornamentation. There is no definite period for its development, but it usually refers to monuments built between the sixth and eleventh centuries; between the Roman