Paul Bew is een vooraanstaand commentator op de Noord-Ierse politiek, die diep geworteld is in de Ierse geschiedenis en hedendaagse Ierse aangelegenheden. Zijn schrijven biedt een scherpe analyse van politieke stromingen en hun historische onderbouwing. Als professor in de Ierse politiek aan de Queen's University in Belfast brengt hij een schat aan academische expertise en autoriteit in zijn werk. Zijn publicaties bieden lezers diepgaande inzichten in de complexiteit van het Ierse politieke leven.
The story of Charles Stewart Parnell, one of the greatest Irish leaders of the nineteenth century and also one of the most renowned figures of the 1880s on the international stage, and John Dillon, the most celebrated of Parnell's lieutenants. As Paul Bew shows, the differences between the two men reflect both Ireland's past and its future.
Political Forces and Social Classes - Revised and Updated New Edition
As Northern Ireland braces itself for a return to conflict after eighteen months of peace, the new edition of this path-breaking study could scarcely be more timely. Covering the entire period between partition and the end of the IRA's ceasefire in 1996, the authors take issue with the stereotypes which portray the old Unionist state and the Protestant population as unchanging and monolithic and Catholics as uniformly alienated from the political establishment. Three of Ireland's most respected historians have written an accessible yet sophisticated history which shows how the divisions between the old Orange elite and the broader Protestant population created an explosive political dynamic. Using a wide range of primary sources, they lay bare the key issues of Northern Ireland's history from the establishment of the B Specials after partition to the stark realities of Direct Rule from London.'Revisionist' history has been much discussed in recent years. In an Irish context this does not mean denying past realities, but reassessing the country's history in a way which acknowledges the importance of specifically Irish factors in bringing about historical change rather than laying responsibility for all Ireland's woes at England's door. This highly acclaimed study is a landmark in that new history.