Richard English
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{{short description|Northern Irish historian (born 1963)}}
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| birth_name = Richard Ludlow English
| birth_date = {{Birth year and age|1963}}
| birth_place = Belfast, Northern Ireland
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| alma_mater = Keble College, Oxford (BA)
Keele University (PhD)
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| notableworks = Armed Struggle: The History of the IRA (2003)
Irish Freedom: The History of Nationalism in Ireland (2006)
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| subjects = {{hlist|Irish nationalism|Provisional IRA|Irish republicanism}}
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{{For|the cricketer|Richard English (cricketer)}}
Richard Ludlow English{{cite web|url=https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/671144/NY18_Queens_List_-_Final_.pdf|title=New Year's Honours 2018|work=Gov.uk|publisher=Government Digital Service|date=29 December 2017|accessdate=29 December 2017|page=14}} {{Post-nominals|country=GBR|CBE|FBA|MRIA|FRSE|FRHistS}} (born 1963) is a Northern Irish historian and political scientist from Northern Ireland. He was born in Belfast.
He studied as an undergraduate at Keble College, Oxford, and subsequently at Keele University, where he was awarded a PhD in History. He was first employed by the Politics Department at Queen's University Belfast in 1990 and became a professor in 1999. In 2011, he took up an appointment at the University of St Andrews but five years later returned to Queen's University Belfast as pro-vice chancellor for internationalisation and engagement.{{Cite web|url=https://daro.qub.ac.uk/pages/2016-rebrand/news/main-pages/01---richard-english-pvc|title=01 - Richard English PVC - QUB}}
His father, Donald English (1930–1998), was a prominent Methodist preacher.
Academic research
Most of his research has been centred on the Irish Republican movement and particularly the history of the Irish Republican Army. His first book, based on his doctoral thesis, concerned the history of post Irish Civil War Republican politics and was titled Radicals and the Republic, Socialist Republicanism in the Irish Free State (1994). His next work was a biography of 1920s IRA veteran Ernie O'Malley, entitled Ernie O'Malley: IRA Intellectual which was published in 1998.
Since then, he has written Armed Struggle: The History of the IRA (2003). This book, predominantly a history of the modern Provisional IRA, won the politics book of the year award from the Political Studies Association and was shortlisted for the Christopher Ewart-Biggs Memorial Prize. After this, he wrote a broader history of Irish nationalism, Irish Freedom, The History of Nationalism in Ireland (2006), which won the Ewart-Biggs Memorial Prize in 2007.[http://www.qub.ac.uk/schools/SchoolofPoliticsInternationalStudiesandPhilosophy/Staff/English/ Richard English's page at Queen's University Belfast]
He has also co-edited two volumes: The State: Historical and Political Dimensions (1999, with Charles Townshend); and Rethinking British Decline (1999, with Michael Kenny).
He is a frequent media commentator on terrorism and Irish politics and history, including work for the BBC, NPR, The Times Literary Supplement, Newsweek, and the Financial Times.[http://www.oup.com/us/catalog/general/subject/Politics/InternationalStudies/InternationalSecurityStrategicSt/?view=usa&ci=9780199229987 Oxford University Press: Terrorism: Richard English]
In 2009, he published a study of political violence, titled Terrorism: How to Respond.[http://doras.dcu.ie/15749/ The 'T' word: a review of Richard English's terrorism: how to respond (Oxford University Press 2009) – DORAS – DCU]
In 2016, he contributed to the documentary film Bobby Sands: 66 Days. In 2017, he delivered the Gifford Lectures on Nationalism, Terrorism and Religion at the University of Edinburgh.{{cite web |title=Gifford Lectures |url=https://www.ed.ac.uk/arts-humanities-soc-sci/news-events/lectures/gifford-lectures |website=ed.ac.uk |publisher=University of Edinburgh}}
Publications
=Books=
- {{cite book|last=English|first=Richard|year=1994|title=Radicals and the Republic, Socialist Republicanism in the Irish Free State|location=|publisher=}}
- {{cite book|last=English|first=Richard|year=1998|title=Ernie O'Malley: IRA Intellectual|location=|publisher=}}
- {{cite book|last=English|first=Richard|year=2003|title=Armed Struggle: The History of the IRA|location=|publisher=}}
- {{cite book|last=English|first=Richard|year=2006|title=Irish Freedom: The History of Nationalism in Ireland|location=|publisher=}}
- {{cite book|last=English|first=Richard|year=2009|title=Terrorism: How to Respond|location=Oxford|publisher=Oxford University Press}}
- {{cite book|last=English|first=Richard|year=2016|title=Does Terrorism Work? A History|location=Oxford|publisher=Oxford University Press}}
=Edited books=
- {{cite book|editor1-last=English|editor1-first=Richard|editor2-last=Townshend|editor2-first=Charles|date=1999|title=The State: Historical and Political Dimensions|location=|publisher=}}
- {{cite book|editor1-last=English|editor1-first=Richard|editor2-last=Kenny|editor2-first=Michael|date=1999|title=Rethinking British Decline|location=|publisher=}}
Honours and awards
References
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Category:Scholars and academics from Belfast
Category:Alumni of Keble College, Oxford
Category:Alumni of Keele University
Category:20th-century historians from Northern Ireland
Category:Academics of Queen's University Belfast
Category:Academics of the University of St Andrews
Category:Christopher Ewart-Biggs Memorial Prize recipients
Category:Members of the Royal Irish Academy
Category:Male non-fiction writers from Northern Ireland
Category:Commanders of the Order of the British Empire