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.
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
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© 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
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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
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
8. Elmwood, Harvard and Further Travels
11. Glenveagh Castle and Inishbofin
12. Ellis and the Ménage à Trois
15. Disappearance and Inquest viii • Glenveagh Mystery
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,