Bruce Arnold (author)
Bruce Croft Arnold was an English journalist and author who lived in Ireland from 1957. His main expertise was in the fields of literary criticism and art criticism.
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.
Early life
Arnold was educated at Kingham Hill School and at Trinity College, Dublin, where he graduated with a degree in modern languages in 1960. His wife Mavis Arnold was also a journalist. They had two children, a son and a daughter. 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.Death
Arnold died of pneumonia in the Glenageary area of Dublin, on 2 May 2024, at the age of 87.Partial bibliography
Fiction
A Singer at the Wedding ;The Song of the Nightingale ;The Muted Swan ;Running to Paradise.Non-fiction
A Concise History of Irish Art Orpen: Mirror to an Age What Kind of Country? Margaret Thatcher: A Study in Power An Art Atlas of Britain and Ireland Orpen: William Orpen 1878-1931 "Lives of Irish Artists" seriesThe Scandal of Ulysses Mainie Jellett and the Modern Movement in Ireland Haughey: His Life and Unlucky Deeds Swift: An Illustrated Life The Spire and Other Essays on Modern Irish Culture He That Is Down Need Fear No Fall The Fight for Democracy: The Libertas Voice in Europe The Irish Gulag: How the State Betrayed its Innocent Children Derek Hill The End of the Party with Jason O'Toole ;Film
The Scandal of Ulysses; Images of Joyce- ''To Make it Live: Mainie Jellett 1897–1944''
Libretto
- ''A Passionate Man''