Bruce Arnold (author)
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London, England
Dublin, Ireland
Bruce Arnold | |
|---|---|
| Born | 6 September 1936 London, England |
| Died | 2 May 2024 (aged 87) Dublin, Ireland |
| Occupation | Journalist, author |
| Education | Kingham Hill School |
| Alma mater | Trinity College Dublin |
| Subject | Literary criticism and art criticism |
| Notable works | A Singer at the Wedding, The Song of the Nightingale, The Muted Swan |
| Notable awards | Fellow of Trinity College Dublin, Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature |
| Spouse | Ysabel Mavis Cleave |
| Children | 2 |
| Relatives | Guy Arnold (brother) |
Bruce Croft Arnold OBE FRSL (6 September 1936 – 2 May 2024) was an English journalist and author who lived in Ireland from 1957.[1] His main expertise was in the fields of literary criticism and art criticism.[2]
In 1983 it emerged that his telephone had been bugged by Charles Haughey in the Irish phone tapping scandal. He and the other bugged journalists were considered to have "anti-national" views.
Arnold was educated at Kingham Hill School and at Trinity College, Dublin, where he graduated with a degree in modern languages (English and French) in 1960.[3] His wife Mavis Arnold (née Ysabel Mavis Cleave) was also a journalist. They had two children, a son and a daughter.[4][5] Arnold's older brother Guy Arnold was also an author, largely on African politics.
Journalism
Arnold worked for the main Irish newspapers based in Dublin – The Irish Times from 1965; The Irish Press and the Sunday Independent. He also acted as Dublin correspondent of The Guardian. He edited Hibernia and the Dublin Magazine (1962–68; formerly The Dubliner).
Death
Arnold died of pneumonia in the Glenageary area of Dublin, on 2 May 2024, at the age of 87.[6][4][7][8]
Partial bibliography
Fiction
- A Singer at the Wedding (London: Hamish Hamilton 1978; rep. Abacus 1991);
- The Song of the Nightingale (London: Hamish Hamilton 1980; rep. Abacus 1991);
- The Muted Swan (London: Hamish Hamilton 1981; rep. Abacus 1991);
- Running to Paradise (London: Hamish Hamilton 1983; rep. Abacus 1991).
Non-fiction
- A Concise History of Irish Art (London: Thames & Hudson, 1969; also New York: Praeger 1968)
- Orpen: Mirror to an Age (London: Jonathan Cape, 1981)
- What Kind of Country? (London: Jonathan Cape, 1984)
- Margaret Thatcher: A Study in Power (London: Hamish Hamilton, 1984)
- An Art Atlas of Britain and Ireland (London: Penguin/Viking, 1991)
- Orpen: William Orpen 1878-1931 (Dublin: Town House, 1991) "Lives of Irish Artists" series
- The Scandal of Ulysses (London: Sinclair Stevenson 1991; New York: St. Martin's Press 1992; Dublin: Liffey 2005)
- Mainie Jellett and the Modern Movement in Ireland (London: Yale UP 1991; New York: Yale UP, 1992)
- Haughey: His Life and Unlucky Deeds (London: HarperCollins, 1993)
- Swift: An Illustrated Life (Dublin: Lilliput, 1999)
- The Spire and Other Essays on Modern Irish Culture (foreword by Charles Lysaght) (Dublin: Liffey Press 2003)
- He That Is Down Need Fear No Fall (Ashfield Press, 2008)
- The Fight for Democracy: The Libertas Voice in Europe (2009) (about the Libertas Institute)
- The Irish Gulag: How the State Betrayed its Innocent Children (2009) (published just before the Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse report)
- Derek Hill (2010)
- The End of the Party with Jason O'Toole (Gill & MacMillan, 2011);
Film
- The Scandal of Ulysses; Images of Joyce
- To Make it Live: Mainie Jellett 1897–1944
Libretto
- A Passionate Man
