Robert Fisk - Education

Education

Fisk was educated at Yardley Court preparatory school, Sutton Valence School and at Lancaster University, where he cut his journalistic teeth on the student magazine John O'Gauntlet. He subsequently gained a PhD in Political Science, from Trinity College, Dublin in 1983. The title of his doctoral thesis was "A condition of limited warfare: Éire's neutrality and the relationship between Dublin, Belfast and London, 1939–1945".

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