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'''Paul Anthony Elliott Bew, Baron Bew''' (born 1950, in [[Belfast]])<ref name="guardian">[http://education.guardian.co.uk/egweekly/story/0,5500,1164709,00.html "Paul Bew: Belfast's History Man." ''The Guardian.'' 9 March 2004]</ref> |
'''Paul Anthony Elliott Bew, Baron Bew''' (born 1950, in [[Belfast]])<ref name="guardian">[http://education.guardian.co.uk/egweekly/story/0,5500,1164709,00.html "Paul Bew: Belfast's History Man." ''The Guardian.'' 9 March 2004]</ref> He has worked at [[Queen's University Belfast]] since 1979, and is currently Professor of Irish Politics, a position he has held since 1991.<ref name="guardian"> |
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==Career== |
==Career== |
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Bew attended [[Campbell College|Campbell College, Belfast]] as a youth, before studying for his BA and PhD at [[Cambridge University]]. His first book, |
Bew attended [[Campbell College|Campbell College, Belfast]] as a youth, before studying for his BA and PhD at [[Cambridge University]]. His first book, ''Land and the National Question in Ireland, 1858-82'' was a revisionist study that challenged nationalist historiography by examining not only the clash between landowners and tenants, but the conflict between large and small tenants as well. His third book, a short study of [[Charles Stewart Parnell]], challenged some of the arguments of the award-winning biography of Parnell by [[F. S. L. Lyons]], though Lyons, one of the "doyens" of modern Irish history, acknowledged the young historian's arguments by stating that "(n)othing Dr Bew writes is without interest."<ref>{{cite news|author=Roy Foster|title=Partnership of loss|publisher=''London Review of Books''|date=2007-12-13}}</ref> |
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As a young man, Bew participated in the People's Democracy marches and was occasionally identified with the [[Workers Party of Ireland|Workers' Party]]. |
Bew's politcal stance has changed somewhat over the years. In a 2004 interview for ''The Guardian'', he stated that "While my language was more obviously leftwing in the 1970s than today, that sympathy has always been there".<ref name="guardian"> As a young man, Bew participated in the People's Democracy marches and was occasionally identified with the [[Workers Party of Ireland|Workers' Party]]. Later, Bew served as an adviser to [[David Trimble]],<ref name="guardian"> and his contributions to the [[Good Friday Agreement]] process were acknowledged with an appointment to the [[House of Lords]] as a [[life peer]] in [[February]] [[2007]].<ref name=IrishTimes>{{cite news|url=http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/breaking/2007/0215/breaking42.htm|title=Belfast academic becomes lord|date=2007-02-15|accessdate=2008-03-06}}>/ref> He was gazetted as '''Baron Bew''', of Donegore in the County of Antrim on [[26 March]] 2007, and sits as a [[crossbencher]]. Trimble and Bew are both signatories to the statement of principles of the [[Henry Jackson Society]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.henryjacksonsociety.org/signatories.asp?pageid=36|title=Signatories to the Statement of Principles|publisher=Henry Jackson Society|accessdate=2008-03-06}}</ref> which has been characterised as a [[Neoconservatism|neoconservative]] organisation.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2005/nov/21/foreignpolicy.iraq|author=David Clark|title=The neoconservative temptation beckoning Britain's bitter liberals|publisher=''The Guardian''|date=2005-11-21|accessdate=2008-03-06}}</ref> |
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==Personal== |
==Personal== |
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Bew is married to [[Greta Jones]], a history professor at the [[University of Ulster]] |
Bew is married to [[Greta Jones]], a history professor at the [[University of Ulster]], with whom he has one son.<ref name="guardian"> |
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== Published works == |
== Published works == |
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*[http://www.qub.ac.uk/schools/SchoolofPoliticsInternationalStudiesandPhilosophy/Staff/Bew/ Paul Bew's homepage at |
*[http://www.qub.ac.uk/schools/SchoolofPoliticsInternationalStudiesandPhilosophy/Staff/Bew/ Paul Bew's homepage at Queen's University Belfast] |
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Revision as of 22:41, 6 March 2008
Paul Anthony Elliott Bew, Baron Bew (born 1950, in Belfast)[1] He has worked at Queen's University Belfast since 1979, and is currently Professor of Irish Politics, a position he has held since 1991.Cite error: A <ref> tag is missing the closing </ref> (see the help page).
Bew's politcal stance has changed somewhat over the years. In a 2004 interview for The Guardian, he stated that "While my language was more obviously leftwing in the 1970s than today, that sympathy has always been there".Cite error: A <ref> tag is missing the closing </ref> (see the help page). which has been characterised as a neoconservative organisation.[2]
Personal
Bew is married to Greta Jones, a history professor at the University of Ulster, with whom he has one son.<ref name="guardian">
Published works
- Land and the National Question in Ireland, 1858-82. 1979.
- The State in Northern Ireland, 1921-72:Political Forces and Social Class. 1979.
- C.S. Parnell. 1980.
- with Henry Patterson (1982). Sean Lemass and the Making of Modern Ireland, 1945-66.
- with Henry Patterson (1985). The British State and the Ulster Crisis: From Wilson to Thatcher.
- Conflict and Conciliation in Ireland, 1890-1910: Parnellites and Radical Agrarians. 1987.
- with Henry Patterson and Ellen Hazelkorn (1989). The Dynamics of Irish Politics.
- Between War and Peace: The Political Future of Northern Ireland. 1997.
- The State in Northern Ireland 1921-97: Political Forces and Social Classes. 1997.
- Ideology and the Irish Question: Ulster Unionism and Irish Nationalism, 1912-1916. 1994.
- John Redmond. 1996.
- with Gordon Gillespie (1999). Northern Ireland: A Chronology of the Troubles, 1968-99.
- Ireland: The Politics of Enmity 1789-2006. 2007. (a volume in the Oxford History of Modern Europe series)
References
- ^ "Paul Bew: Belfast's History Man." The Guardian. 9 March 2004
- ^ David Clark (2005-11-21). "The neoconservative temptation beckoning Britain's bitter liberals". The Guardian. Retrieved 2008-03-06.
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