Mount Everest: the Reconnaissance, 1921
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  • Charles Howard-Bury
    • His Early Life
    • Always Moving On
    • The Celestial Mountains
    • The First World War
  • Exploring Everest
    • Mother and Goddess
    • The Third Pole
    • Taking the First Steps
    • An Arduous Journey
    • Tibet in 1921
    • Mapping the Unknown
    • On the Mountain
    • Coming back to Earth
    • Printing the Legend
  • Legacy
    • Subsequent Everest Expeditions
    • Fame and Politics
    • A Home in Belvedere
    • Marian Keaney's Publications
    • The 1993 Expedition to Everest
    • The Howard-Bury Collection
    • Continue Exploring...

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Westmeath County Council provides a number of ways in which you can further explore the life of
Charles Howard-Bury, the history of Westmeath, and the county during the Irish War of Independence and Civil War.


Belvedere House, Gardens and Park
Belvedere House, Charles Howard-Bury's home, is open to the public.
Set on 160 acres near Mullingar in County Westmeath, the estate offers a
fully restored Georgian villa, Victorian walled garden,
 and ​an 18th century parkland punctuated with Romantic follies including
the largest in Ireland, ​the so-called Jealous Wall.

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belvedere-house.ie

Historian in Residence, County Westmeath

​This exhibition was researched and created by Ian Kenneally, who was
Historian in Residence for County Westmeath at that time.
An author and historian, Ian travelled to Tibet in 2007.

Frank Nugent, historian and deputy leader of the successful Irish expedition
to Mount Everest in 1993, provided video interviews as part of the exhibition.

This exhibition is part of Westmeath County Council's Decade of Centenaries programme.
Since 2020, the 
council's Historians in Residence have charted the county's
history during the War of Independence.


See our blog on the
Irish War of Independence in Westmeath

One of the many videos and articles produced during Westmeath County Council's Historian in Residence programme

Online exhibition created by Ian Kenneally
Interview with Frank Nugent recorded by Bailey & Blake
Sound recording and editing by Swell Audio

BACK: The Howard-Bury Collection
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​This exhibition is part of Westmeath County Council's ​Decade of Centenaries programme

See our blog on the years 1919-1921
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Belvedere House, Gardens & Park
Belvedere, Mullingar
County Westmeath
N91 EF80, Ireland

Contact Details:

Web: belvedere-house.ie
Tel.  +353 (0)44 9338960
Fax. +353 (0)44 9349002
​Email: [email protected]

For queries related to this exhibition email
​the Historian in Residence for County Westmeath:

[email protected]
  • Home
  • Charles Howard-Bury
    • His Early Life
    • Always Moving On
    • The Celestial Mountains
    • The First World War
  • Exploring Everest
    • Mother and Goddess
    • The Third Pole
    • Taking the First Steps
    • An Arduous Journey
    • Tibet in 1921
    • Mapping the Unknown
    • On the Mountain
    • Coming back to Earth
    • Printing the Legend
  • Legacy
    • Subsequent Everest Expeditions
    • Fame and Politics
    • A Home in Belvedere
    • Marian Keaney's Publications
    • The 1993 Expedition to Everest
    • The Howard-Bury Collection
    • Continue Exploring...