Charles Lysaght (ABOVE), editor of Great Irish Lives, a collection of Irish obituaries published in the London Times between 1820 and 2008, will give a lecture entitled 'The Art of the Obituary' on Wednesday at 6pm. The lecture, which is free and open to the public, will take place at the Minerva Suite at the RDS in Dublin. Lysaght has been writing obituaries for the Times and other newspapers for many years.