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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Rory Carroll Ireland correspondent

Mystery of US archaeologist’s Irish disappearance to be examined on TV

The island of Inishbofin, in County Donegal.
The island of Inishbofin, in County Donegal. Photograph: Avalon.red/Alamy

When Arthur Kingsley Porter vanished from the remote island of Inishbofin off Ireland’s Atlantic coast in 1933 it made the front page of the New York Times. “Archaeologist lost from boat in storm,” said the headline.

The inquest – the first in Ireland without a body – concluded the prominent Harvard university academic had in fact stumbled from a cliff while out walking and been washed away in a freak accident.

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