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 in Dublin at Gonzaga College, at University College Dublin, and at Cambridge University. He 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 and was seconded for 10 years as Research Counsellor to the Law Reform Commission.[2]
He is President of the Cambridge University Ireland Society.[3]
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[4]
- 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[5][6] and is an authority on the minutiae of recondite past laws and practices.[7]
See also
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