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Date Posted: Tue, Mar 18 2008, 20:58:37 PDT
Author: CR Vets
Subject: Lord Paul Bew
In reply to: CR Vets 's message, "MAGEE CIVIL RIGHTS LECTURE" on Tue, Mar 18 2008, 20:45:41 PDT

Paul Bew, Baron Bew From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia ��(Redirected from Paul Bew) Paul Anthony Elliott Bew, Baron Bew (born 1950, in Belfast) [1] is a Northern Irish historian. He has worked at Queen's University Belfast since 1979, and is currently Professor of Irish Politics, a position he has held since 1991. [1] Career Academic career Bew attended 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 "Nothing Dr Bew writes is without interest." [2] In 2007, Oxford University Press published Bew's Ireland: The Politics of Enmity 1789-2006, which forms part of the Oxford History of Modern Europe series. The book has received positive reviews. [2][3][4] Bew also acted as a historical advisor to the Bloody Sunday Inquiry between 1998 and 2001. [5] Political involvement 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". [1] As a young man, Bew participated in the People's Democracy marches and was occasionally identified with the Workers' Party. Later, Bew served as an adviser to David Trimble. [1] Trimble and Bew are both signatories to the statement of principles of the Henry Jackson Society , [6] which has been characterised as a neoconservative organisation. [7] Professor Bew's contributions to the Good Friday Agreement process were acknowledged with an appointment to the House of Lords as a life peer in February 2007. [8] He was gazetted as Baron Contents  1 Career  1.1 Academic career  1.2 Political involvement  2 Personal  3 Published works  4 References  5 See also  6 External links Page 1 of 3 Paul Bew, Baron Bew - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 18/03/2008 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Bew

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