Robert O'Byrne

Robert O'Byrne is a writer and lecturer specialising in the fine and decorative arts in Ireland, and the author of more than a dozen books, among them 'Luggala: The Story of a Guinness House' and 'Romantic Irish Homes'. A former Vice-President of the Irish Georgian Society, he is currently a trustee of the Apollo Foundation and the Artists Collecting Society. He writes a monthly column for Apollo magazine, and is also a contributor to The Burlington Magazine and the Irish Arts Review. Since...See more

Robert O'Byrne is a writer and lecturer specialising in the fine and decorative arts in Ireland, and the author of more than a dozen books, among them 'Luggala: The Story of a Guinness House' and 'Romantic Irish Homes'. A former Vice-President of the Irish Georgian Society, he is currently a trustee of the Apollo Foundation and the Artists Collecting Society. He writes a monthly column for Apollo magazine, and is also a contributor to The Burlington Magazine and the Irish Arts Review. Since 2012 he has written an award-winning blog, www.theirishaesthete.com and a book of his photographs from this - 'The Irish Aesthete: Ruins of Ireland' - was published in March 2019. See less