Bruce Arnold

Bruce Arnold has, for many years, been a Chief Critic of the Irish Independent, Ireland’s largest selling daily newspaper, and also it’s Chief Political Columnist.
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. He has published fifteen books, has 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”.

He has been a political journalist for the past forty years and wrote about politics throughout Jack Lynch’s leadership, coming to know the man as well as the politician. His portrait is an insider’s account of a remarkable career.

Bruce Arnold’s books include: Haughey: His Life and Unlucky Deeds and Jack Yeats, the authorised biographer of the Irish artist. He lives in County Dublin, Ireland.