Charles Lysaght (born 23 September 1941) is an Irish lawyer, biographer, obituarist and occasional columnist.
[1] He was elected auditor of the law students debating society of Ireland, King's Inns (1961-2)[2] and president of The Cambridge Union (Easter term 1964), defeating Vince Cable by a large majority.
He was part-time professor of law at King's Inns (where he was an honorary bencher) from 1970 to 1975 and joined the Irish Department of External Affairs as a legal adviser in 1970 moving to the Irish Law Reform Commission for 10 years in 1978.
[4] Subsequently, he was a member of an Irish government committee on EU Fisheries Policy chaired by Dr T. K. Whitaker and a member of the Advisory Board of the National Archives of Ireland Since 1969 he has written Irish obituaries for The Times of London.
[8] Lysaght has also written articles for learned journals on law and contributed entries to the Dictionary of Irish Biography.