Cecil Ffrench Salkeld (9 July 1904 – 11 May 1969) was an Irish painter, printmaker, critic and writer.

He attended Mount St Benedict's, Gorey, County Wexford, and the Dragon School, Oxford.

He had a wide circle of literary friends, including Samuel Beckett and Flann O'Brien.

In O'Brien's At Swim-two-birds the character of Michael Byrne was designed for Salkeld, reflecting his debilitating alcoholism.

[1][4] Salkeld also taught at the Dublin Metropolitan School of Art, teaching artists such as Reginald Gray.

[6] He illustrated her 1938 The Engine left running, as well as Ewart Milne's Forty North Fifty West (1938) and Liam O'Flaherty's Red Barbara and other stories (1928).

[6][8] Salkeld's most famous public work is his 1942 three-part mural in Davy Byrne's pub.