Charles Lysaght

Charles Lysaght

Charles Lysaght is an Irish lawyer, author and journalist. He is the foremost writer of obituaries in Ireland.

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Legal career

Lysaght was educated at Cambridge University and qualified as a barrister at the King's Inns, Dublin, and then at Lincoln's Inn in London. He was one of the duo that won the first Irish Times Debate in 1960[1] and was elected auditor of the King's Inns Debating Society in 1961. He worked for the Irish Department of Foreign Affairs as a specialist in European Union law. He is President of the Cambridge University Ireland Society.[2]

Bibliography

  • Administration of Justice in Ireland (1975) by VTH Delany; edited by Charles Lysaght
  • Brendan Bracken Allen Lane, London (1979) ISBN 0-7139-0969-2[3]
  • Edward MacLysaght, 1887-1986: A memoir (1988)
  • Vanishing Kingdoms: Irish Chiefs and Their Families, AD 900-2004 (2004) (joint author)
  • The Times Great Irish Lives: An Era in Obituaries (Times Books 2008-09), co-authored with Garret FitzGerald.

Lysaght also reviews books for the Sunday Independent[4][5] and is an authority on the minutiae of recondite past laws and practices.[6]

See also

Irish Times Debate

Notes

  1. ^ http://www.ucclawsociety.com/archives/index.php?title=Irish_Times_Debating_Competition
  2. ^ http://www.alumni.ox.ac.uk/alumni_networks/regional_networks/around_the_branches/ireland_and_the.html
  3. ^ http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-82803457.html
  4. ^ http://www.drb.ie/more_details/09-06-05/For_Ireland_and_the_Crown.aspx
  5. ^ http://www.independent.ie/opinion/letters/neil-blaney-had-a-lot-to-offer-1955963.html
  6. ^ http://www.burkespeerage.com/articles/ireland/page93.aspx

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