A graduate of Pembroke College, Cambridge, Paul Bew has been Professor of Irish Politics at Queen’s University, Belfast since 1991. A leading commentator on Northern Irish politics, he is the author of many publications on Irish history and the politics of contemporary Ireland.
Books in order of publication:
Land and the National Question in Ireland, 1858–82. Gill & Macmillan. 1979.
The State in Northern Ireland, 1921–72: Political Forces and Social Class. Manchester University Press. 1979.
C.S. Parnell. Gill & Macmillan. 1980.
Sean Lemass and the Making of Modern Ireland, 1945–66. Gill & Macmillan. 1982. (with Henry Patterson)
The British State and the Ulster Crisis: From Wilson to Thatcher. Verso Books. 1985. (with Henry Patterson)
Conflict and Conciliation in Ireland, 1890–1910: Parnellites and Radical Agrarians. Clarendon Press. 1987.
The Dynamics of Irish Politics. Lawrence & Wishart. 1989. (with Henry Patterson and Ellen Hazelkorn)
Between War and Peace: The Political Future of Northern Ireland. Lawrence & Wishart. 1997.
Northern Ireland 1921–2001: Political Power and Social Classes. Serif. 2002.
Ideology and the Irish Question: Ulster Unionism and Irish Nationalism, 1912–1916. Clarendon Press. 1994.
John Redmond. Dundalgan Press. 1996.
Northern Ireland: A Chronology of the Troubles, 1968–99. Gill & Macmillan. 1999. (with Gordon Gillespie)
The Making and Remaking of the Good Friday Agreement. The Liffey Press. 2007.
Ireland: The Politics of Enmity 1789–2006. Oxford University Press. 2007.
Enigma: A New Life of Charles Stewart Parnell. Gill & Macmillan. 2011.
Churchill & Ireland. Oxford University Press. 2016.
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