 | Professor Richard English
Professor of Politics, Queen's University, Belfast (S5) Modern Irish and British politics and history; nationalism, political violence, and intellectual history; the politics and history of terrorism
Richard English was born in 1963 in Belfast, where he is Professor of Politics at Queen's University. His books include Armed Struggle: The History of the IRA (which won the 2003 UK Political Studies Association Politics Book of the Year Award) and Irish Freedom: The History of Nationalism in Ireland (which won the 2007 Christopher Ewart-Biggs Memorial Prize, and the 2007 Political Studies Association of Ireland Book Prize). Educated at the Universities of Oxford and Keele, he is a frequent media commentator on Irish politics and history and on terrorism, including work for the BBC, ITN, SKY NEWS, NPR, RTE, the Irish Times, the Times Literary Supplement, Newsweek and the Financial Times. He is the author of six books and the co-editor of a further five, and in 2009 he was elected a Member of the Royal Irish Academy. His most recentbook, Terrorism: How to Respond, was published in 2009 by Oxford University Press. |
