Bruce Arnold (born 6 September 1936 in London) is an English journalist and author who has lived in Ireland since 1957. His main expertise is in the fields of

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and art criticism. In 1983 it emerged that his telephone had been

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by Charles Haughey in the

Irish phone tapping scandal On 18 December 1982, ''Irish Times'' security correspondent Peter Murtagh broke the news that the telephone of Bruce Arnold and Geraldine Kennedy had been tapped officially with warrants signed by former Minister for Justice Seán Doherty. This ...

. He and the other bugged journalists were considered to have "anti-national" views.

Early life

Arnold was educated at Kingham Hill School and at

Trinity College, Dublin , name_Latin = Collegium Sanctae et Individuae Trinitatis Reginae Elizabethae juxta Dublin , motto = ''Perpetuis futuris temporibus duraturam'' (Latin) , motto_lang = la , motto_English = It will last i ...

, where he studied modern languages. His wife Mavis Arnold (née Ysabel Mavis Cleave) was also a journalist. Arnold's older brother Guy Arnold is also an author, largely on African politics.

Journalism

Arnold has 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 has edited ''Hibernia'' and the ''Dublin Magazine'' (1962–68; formerly ''The Dubliner'').

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'' ed. (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) * '' William Orpen'' (Dublin: Town House, 1991) * ''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) * ''Biography of 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''

Awards

He is an honorary Fellow of Trinity College Dublin, a Fellow of the

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and an honorary member of the Royal Hibernian Academy. He was awarded an honorary doctorate by University College Dublin (UCD) and an

OBE The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British order of chivalry, rewarding contributions to the arts and sciences, work with charitable and welfare organisations, and public service outside the civil service. It was established o ...

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Arnold, Bruce 1936 births Living people Alumni of Trinity College Dublin English art critics English expatriates in Ireland English magazine editors English non-fiction writers English political writers Fellows of the Royal Society of Literature People associated with University College Dublin Sunday Independent (Ireland) people The Guardian journalists The Irish Press people The Irish Times people People educated at Kingham Hill School Writers from London English male non-fiction writers English social commentators