Bruce
Arnold is a writer and journalist based in Dublin.
He is Chief Critic of the Irish Independent and a
regular political commentator for the paper. He is
the author of 15 books, including biographical studies
of Charles Haughey and Margaret Thatcher, and studies
on Irish cultural matters, including a Concise History
of Irish Art and works on Jack Yeats and Sir William
Orpen.
He was born in London
and educated at Kingham Hill School and then at Trinity
College Dublin. He has a postgraduate degree of Doctor
of Letters from the National University of Ireland
and is an Honorary Fellow of Trinity College.
Bruce
Arnold has also written three
plays for children and a libretto for an opera about
the life of Jonathan Swift. He is a Fellow of the Royal
Society of Literature.
In 2003
he was made OBE "for services to journalism and to British-Irish
relations". |
