Frank McDonald
Frank McDonald is from Dublin and lives in Temple Bar. Educated at St Vincent's CBS, Glasnevin, and UCD, he is Environment Editor of The Irish Times and has won several awards, including one for Outstanding Work in Irish Journalism.
He is the author of The Destruction of Dublin (1985) and Saving the City (1989), two books that helped to change Irish public policy on urban renewal. He also co-authored Ireland’s Earthen Houses and edited The Ecological Footprint of Cities, both published in 1997. His third book on Dublin, The Construction of Dublin (2000), was a non-fiction bestseller. He is also joint author with James Nix of Chaos at the Crossroads (2005), a book documenting the environmental destruction of Ireland, and with Kathy Sheridan of The Builders (Penguin, 2008), a book on Ireland’s big property developers, which also became a non-fiction bestseller.
In 2006, Frank was awarded an honorary DPhil by Dublin Institute of Technology. He was also a Press Fellow at Wolfson College, Cambridge, in Lent Term 2008, and was conferred with honorary membership of the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland (RIAI) in February 2010.
