Charles Lysaght

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

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

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

Irish Times Debate

Notes

  1. ↑ "Irish Times Debating Competition". UCC Law Society. 2011-03-31. Retrieved 2013-02-11.
  2. ↑ "Tenth Report 19988" (PDF). The Law Reform Commission. April 1989. Retrieved 22 June 2015.
  3. ↑ https://web.archive.org/20100508145043/http://www.alumni.ox.ac.uk:80/alumni_networks/regional_networks/around_the_branches/ireland_and_the.html. Archived from the original on May 8, 2010. Retrieved August 12, 2010. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  4. ↑ http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-82803457.html
  5. ↑ https://web.archive.org/20110630122526/http://www.drb.ie:80/more_details/09-06-05/For_Ireland_and_the_Crown.aspx. Archived from the original on June 30, 2011. Retrieved August 12, 2010. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  6. ↑
  7. ↑ "The Irish Peers and the House of Lords - The Final Chapter". Burkes Peerage. 1999. Retrieved 2013-02-11.
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