Paul Bew, Baron Bew

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Paul Anthony Elliott Bew, Baron Bew is professor of Irish politics at the Queen's University of Belfast, a position he has held 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. Like Trimble, he is a signatory of the Cambridge think tank the Henry Jackson Society.

In February 2007, it was announced by the House of Lords Appointments Commission that he will be made a life peer and will sit as a Crossbencher. His title was gazetted as Baron Bew, of Donegore in the County of Antrim on 26 March 2007.

[edit] Recently published works

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