Paul Bew

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Paul Bew is professor of Irish politics at the Queen's University of Belfast since 1991.

A native of Belfast, Professor Bew attended Campbell College, Belfast before studying for his Masters and PhD at Cambridge University. He was active in the Northern Ireland Civil Rights movement, and participated in the 1969 Belfast-Derry march which was attacked by loyalist protestors at Burntollet. A recognised authority on Irish History and politics, Professor Bew was at one time associated with the Workers' Party/Democratic Left. More recently, he was an unofficial adviser to the former Ulster Unionist leader David Trimble. He is a member of the Cadogan Group, a loosely-organised think-thank which discusses the Northern Ireland situation from a mildly pro-Unionist perspective.

[edit] Recently published works

Land and the National Question Co-author (with Henry Patterson) Sean Lemass and the Making of Modern Ireland C.S. Parnell (1980) Conflict and Conciliation in Ireland, 1890-1910 Co-author, Between War and Peace: The Political Future of Northern Ireland (1997) Co-author, Northern Ireland 1921-97: Political Forces and Social Classes (1997) Author, Ideology and the Irish Question: Ulster Unionism and Irish Nationalism 1912-1916 (1994)