1 UNIV ONLINE CATALOGUES UC:P351 – Photographs of Michael George UC:P351/3/P3: From “A Journey Through Ireland” – Province of Ulster UC:P351/3/P3/1: County Donegal, the road to the Derryveagh Mountains, 1985. UC:P351/3/P3/2: County Donegal, the Derryveagh Mountains, sunset, 1985. UC:P351/3/P3/3: County Donegal, Glenveagh National Park, Lough Veagh, and Leahmore, 1985. Archivist: Dr Robin Darwall-Smith E: [email protected] T: +44 (0)1865 276 952 2 UNIV ONLINE CATALOGUES UC:P351 – Photographs of Michael George UC:P351/3/P3: From “A Journey Through Ireland” – Province of Ulster UC:P351/3/P3/4: County Donegal, Glenveagh National Park, Glenveagh Castle, and Lough Veagh, 1985. In the Highlands of Donegal, at the heart of Glenveagh National Park, all 40 square miles of it, lies Lough Veagh, beside which, on a rocky promontory, Glenveagh Castle was built, between 1870 and 1873, for John George Adair, an Irishman of Scottish descent, to the design of his cousin, John Townsend Trench. Together with his American wife, Adair planted Austrian and Scots pine to shield the castle from the prevailing winds. Mrs Adair, who was to survive her husband by many years, until her own death in 1921, laid out the ‘Pleasure Grounds’. Latterly, these were greatly extended and embellished by Henry P. McIlhenny (1910-86), of Rittenhouse Square, Philadelphia, President of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, who, for over forty years, from 1937 to 1983, deployed his artistic sense and knowledge of plants, augmented by the expert advice of, successively, James Russell and Lanning Roper, thereby creating a series of gardens, among the most celebrated in Ireland, justly appreciated by the circle of cultivated friends to whom he played host every summer. In 1975 the lands of Glenveagh were purchased from Mr McIlhenny for the National Parks and Monuments Service, a branch of the Office of Public Works and, in 1981, Mr McIlhenny presented Glenveagh Castle and Gardens to the Irish government. In this extraordinary setting, the mountainside haunt of near a thousand red deer, he succeeded in creating, for a few, the success of which ‘lies in the counterpoint between the savage wilderness of the setting and the studied exquisiteness of the effects’ (Michael George, Patrick Bowe, The Gardens of Ireland). UC:P351/3/P3/5: County Donegal, Glenveagh National Park, Glenveagh Castle, 1985. Archivist: Dr Robin Darwall-Smith E: [email protected] T: +44 (0)1865 276 952 3 UNIV ONLINE CATALOGUES UC:P351 – Photographs of Michael George UC:P351/3/P3: From “A Journey Through Ireland” – Province of Ulster UC:P351/3/P3/6: County Donegal, Glenveagh National Park, Glenveagh Castle, the round tower, and Lough Veagh, 1985. UC:P351/3/P3/7: County Donegal, Glenveagh National Park, Glenveagh Gardens, the Italian Garden, seen from the castle keep, with the shelter belt of Austrian and Scots pine planted around the castle by the Adairs, and Lough Veagh, 1985. The Italian Garden, the most important formal element in the gardens, was created in about 1958. Archivist: Dr Robin Darwall-Smith E: [email protected] T: +44 (0)1865 276 952 4 UNIV ONLINE CATALOGUES UC:P351 – Photographs of Michael George UC:P351/3/P3: From “A Journey Through Ireland” – Province of Ulster UC:P351/3/P3/8: County Donegal, Glenveagh National Park, Glenveagh Gardens, the Italian Garden, and the castle keep, 1985. UC:P351/3/P3/9: County Donegal, Glenveagh National Park, Glenveagh Gardens, the Italian Garden, a rectangular lawn lined by Griselinia hedges, inset with busts imported from Florence, and old stone benches, 1985. Archivist: Dr Robin Darwall-Smith E: [email protected] T: +44 (0)1865 276 952 5 UNIV ONLINE CATALOGUES UC:P351 – Photographs of Michael George UC:P351/3/P3: From “A Journey Through Ireland” – Province of Ulster UC:P351/3/P3/10: County Donegal, Glenveagh National Park, Glenveagh Gardens, the Italian Garden, a male bust from Florence, 1985. UC:P351/3/P3/11: County Donegal, Glenveagh National Park, Glenveagh Gardens, the Italian Garden, a female bust from Florence, 1985. Archivist: Dr Robin Darwall-Smith E: [email protected] T: +44 (0)1865 276 952 6 UNIV ONLINE CATALOGUES UC:P351 – Photographs of Michael George UC:P351/3/P3: From “A Journey Through Ireland” – Province of Ulster UC:P351/3/P3/12: County Donegal, Glenveagh National Park, Glenveagh Gardens, the Pleasure Grounds, 1985. UC:P351/3/P3/13: County Donegal, Glenveagh National Park, Glenveagh Gardens, the Pleasure Grounds, feathery bamboo, Arundinaria nitida, is a foil for the purple barberry, Berberis thunbergii ‘Atropurpurea’, and the large leaves of Rodgersia pinnata ‘Superba’, 1985. UC:P351/3/P3/14: County Donegal, Glenveagh National Park, Glenveagh Gardens, the Italianate Terrace, built about 1966, an outdoor salon paved with local Donegal slate and furnished with Regency iron seats, huge Sicilian oil jars dated 1842, and superb stone statuary, mainly 18th Century Italian, 1985. Archivist: Dr Robin Darwall-Smith E: [email protected] T: +44 (0)1865 276 952 7 UNIV ONLINE CATALOGUES UC:P351 – Photographs of Michael George UC:P351/3/P3: From “A Journey Through Ireland” – Province of Ulster UC:P351/3/P3/15: County Donegal, Glenveagh National Park, Glenveagh Gardens, the Italianate Terrace, 18th century Italian stone sculpture, 1985. UC:P351/3/P3/16: County Donegal, Glenveagh National Park, Glenveagh Gardens, the Italianate Terrace, stone herms at the entrance, 1985. Archivist: Dr Robin Darwall-Smith E: [email protected] T: +44 (0)1865 276 952 8 UNIV ONLINE CATALOGUES UC:P351 – Photographs of Michael George UC:P351/3/P3: From “A Journey Through Ireland” – Province of Ulster UC:P351/3/P3/17: County Donegal, Glenveagh National Park, Glenveagh Gardens, the Italianate Terrace, stone herm, hostas cultivated in earthenware pots, backed by Pieris formosa forestii, 1985. UC:P351/3/P3/18: County Donegal, Glenveagh National Park, Glenveagh Gardens, the Walled Garden, the wrought-iron gate, 1985. Archivist: Dr Robin Darwall-Smith E: [email protected] T: +44 (0)1865 276 952 9 UNIV ONLINE CATALOGUES UC:P351 – Photographs of Michael George UC:P351/3/P3: From “A Journey Through Ireland” – Province of Ulster UC:P351/3/P3/19: County Donegal, Glenveagh National Park, Glenveagh Gardens, the Walled Garden, lead putto at the gate, 1985. UC:P351/3/P3/20: County Donegal, Glenveagh National Park, Glenveagh Gardens, the Walled Garden, 1985. The walled kitchen garden, or potager, is entered from the castle precincts through a Gothic conservatory designed by Philippe Jullian. Archivist: Dr Robin Darwall-Smith E: [email protected] T: +44 (0)1865 276 952 10 UNIV ONLINE CATALOGUES UC:P351 – Photographs of Michael George UC:P351/3/P3: From “A Journey Through Ireland” – Province of Ulster UC:P351/3/P3/21: County Donegal, Glenveagh National Park, Glenveagh Gardens, a wall fountain behind the Walled Garden, 1985. UC:P351/3/P3/22: County Donegal, Glenveagh National Park, Glenveagh Gardens, a gulley strewn with granite boulders clothed with lichen and moss and bedded in ferns, under a canopy of native Durmast oak, ascends the hill behind the castle, 1985. Archivist: Dr Robin Darwall-Smith E: [email protected] T: +44 (0)1865 276 952 11 UNIV ONLINE CATALOGUES UC:P351 – Photographs of Michael George UC:P351/3/P3: From “A Journey Through Ireland” – Province of Ulster UC:P351/3/P3/23: County Donegal, Glenveagh National Park, Glenveagh Gardens, steps are carved out of and built into the sharp grey limestone rock of the steep hill behind the castle, 1985. UC:P351/3/P3/24: County Donegal, Glenveagh National Park, Glenveagh Castle, and Lough Veagh, a grass bay at the top of the hill affords a view of the castle, Lough Veagh, and the mountains beyond, 1985. UC:P351/3/P3/25: County Donegal, Glenveagh National Park, Glenveagh Castle, and Lough Veagh, another view from the top of the hill behind the castle, with the sheltering Austrian and Scots pine planted by the Adairs, 1985. Archivist: Dr Robin Darwall-Smith E: [email protected] T: +44 (0)1865 276 952 12 UNIV ONLINE CATALOGUES UC:P351 – Photographs of Michael George UC:P351/3/P3: From “A Journey Through Ireland” – Province of Ulster UC:P351/3/P3/26: County Donegal, Glenveagh National Park, Lough Veagh, from the head of Lough Veagh, 1985. UC:P351/3/P3/27: County Donegal, Glenveagh National Park, Lough Veagh, from the head of Lough Veagh, 1985. UC:P351/3/P3/28: County Donegal, Glenveagh National Park, Glenveagh Castle, and Lough Veagh, from the south, 1985. Archivist: Dr Robin Darwall-Smith E: [email protected] T: +44 (0)1865 276 952 13 UNIV ONLINE CATALOGUES UC:P351 – Photographs of Michael George UC:P351/3/P3: From “A Journey Through Ireland” – Province of Ulster UC:P351/3/P3/29: County Donegal, Rathmelton, the harbour, sunset, 1985. UC:P351/3/P3/30: County Donegal, Rathmelton, the harbour, sunset, 1985. Archivist: Dr Robin Darwall-Smith E: [email protected] T: +44 (0)1865 276 952 14 UNIV ONLINE CATALOGUES UC:P351 – Photographs of Michael George UC:P351/3/P3: From “A Journey Through Ireland” – Province of Ulster UC:P351/3/P3/31: County Down, Mount Stewart Garden (The National Trust), 1985. Around a house of historic and architectural importance a series of gardens was created in the early 1920s by Edith, Lady Londonderry, following the move with her husband, the 7th Marquess of Londonderry, to his Irish home at Mount Stewart in 1921.