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A WALK AROUND GREYSTONES

returned to RIC duty in 1919, having been awarded the DSO,
and died in England in 1931.

Still on the same side of
the road, Arva was the
childhood home of the noted
artist, Beatrice Elvery (1881-
1970). Beatrice studied at the
Dublin Metropolitan School of
Art under William Orpen, who
also painted her, and went on
to become a designer for
Sarah Purser’s An Tur Gloine
studio. In 1912 she married
Charles Campbell, Lord
Glenavy. The couple moved
in literary and artistic circles
in London and Dublin, and
included Yeats, George
Bernard Shaw, D H Lawrence
and Katherine Mansfield
among their friends. Beatrice
had a varied and prolific
career, producing theatrical
designs, book illustrations
and decorated furniture, as
well as stained glass, sculpture and paintings. Beatrice’s sister,
Dorothy Kay, also an artist, produced a memoir, The Elvery
family: a memory (1991), in which she recalled life at Arva and
idyllic summers spent with their Hughes cousins, who lived at
St David’s, overlooking the rocks and the sea:

‘They were days to remember, when we bathed and swam
with Norah, Muriel and Elsie. Their diving and daring feats in

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