Bruce Arnold (author)

For the American composer, see Bruce Arnold (jazz).

Bruce Arnold

OBE FRSL
Born(1936-09-06)6 September 1936
London, England
Died2 May 2024(2024-05-02) (aged 87)
Dublin, Ireland
OccupationJournalist, author
EducationKingham Hill School
Alma materTrinity College Dublin
SubjectLiterary criticism and art criticism
Notable worksA Singer at the Wedding, The Song of the Nightingale, The Muted Swan
Notable awardsFellow of Trinity College Dublin, Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature
SpouseYsabel Mavis Cleave
Children2
RelativesGuy 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.

  1. ^ "Princess Grace Irish Library notes"[usurped].
  2. ^ "Arnold's speech about his interests, 1999". Archived 4 July 2008 at the Wayback Machine