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Brian Lalor is the author of many books on Irish landscape, topography and travel, including Dublin Bay (1983), West of West (1990), The Laugh of Lost Men (1997) and The Blue Guide to Ireland (1998). As a printmaker and authority on Irish fine art prints, he has lectured in University College Dublin, the National Gallery of Ireland and the Irish Museum of Modern Art. During the late 1960s he worked as a design architect in London, Munich and Tel Aviv, where he was a prize winner in the Habima Theatre Competition. In 1970 he joined the Hebrew University Jerusalem's Temple Mount Excavation as Director of the Architectural Department and subsequently excavated with the Smithsonian Institution Washington DC, the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique Paris, The British School of Archaeology and other international institutions. Brian Lalor lives in Dublin and West Cork.