About Bruce Arnold

Bruce Arnold OBE FRSL (born 6 September 1936 in London) is an English journalist and author who has lived in Ireland since 1957. His main expertise is 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.