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staff list  BackDr Thomas Hennessey

  • Job title: Reader
  • Dept: History and American Studies
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  • Campus: Canterbury
 

After completing his doctorate Thomas Hennessey was a Junior Research Fellow, at the Institute of Irish Studies, at Queen’s; a Research Officer at the Centre for the Study of Conflict, the University of Ulster; a Research Assistant at the think tank Democratic Dialogue; and a Research Fellow at the School of Politics, at Queen’s. He was also a member of the Ulster Unionist Party’s Talks Team during the negotiation of the Belfast Agreement (Good Friday Agreement) in 1998. Thomas joined the History team at Canterbury Christ Church that same year.

Current Teaching Duties

Level 4:  Britain since 1945

Level 5:  Britain in the Age of Empire & Total War 1870-1945

             Defence of the Realm: the British Secret State since 1868

Level 6: Edge of the Union: the Irish & Ulster Questions since 1886

            Nations and States: Political Violence in Ireland

Research Interests and Areas of Potential Postgraduate Supervision

British domestic politics and international relations since 1945; the Northern Ireland conflict; conflict resolution; counter-insurgency/terrorism. 

Major and Recent Publications

Books

Spooks: the Unofficial History of MI5 co-authored with Claire Thomas (Gloucester: Amberley 2009) ISBN-10: 1848680791

The Evolution of the Troubles 1970-72 (Dublin: Irish Academic Press 2007)  ISBN 978 0 7165 28845) 

Northern Ireland: the Origins of the Northern Ireland Troubles (Dublin: Gill & Macmillan 2005) ISBN 0-7171-3382-6

The Northern Ireland Peace Process. Ending the Troubles? (Dublin: Gill & Macmillan/New York: St Martins Press 2000) ISBN 0-7171-2946-2

Dividing Ireland: World War One and Partition (London: Routledge, 1998) ISBN 0-415-174201

A History of Northern Ireland, 1920-1996 (London: Macmillan/Dublin: Gill & Macmillan/New York: St Martins Press 1997) ISBN 0-333-73162 

Chapters and Articles

‘Unionism and Consent’ in The Anglo-Irish Agreement: Constitutional Concepts in Transition edited by Arthur Aughey and Cathy Gormley-Heenan (Palgrave Macmillan forthcoming 2011)

‘Historic Loyalism’ in Loyalism since the Good Friday Agreement edited by JM McCauley and Graham Spencer (Palgrave Macmillan forthcoming 2011)

‘Patrick Pearse and Partition’, The Life and After-life of P.H. Pearse: Padraig Mac Piarais: Saol Agus Oidhreacht, Higgins, R. and Chollatain, R.U. (eds) (Irish Academic Press, 2009). pp,111-123 isbn. 978 0 7165 3011 4

‘The Evolution of National Identity among Ulster Protestants in the Twentieth Century’, Irish Protestant Identities, Busteed, M., Neal, F. and Tonge, J. (eds) (Manchester University Press, 2009). Pp 344-365 isbn.0719077451

‘Negotiating the Belfast Agreement’, The Northern Ireland Question: The Peace Process and the Belfast Agreement, Barton, B. and Roche, P.J. (eds) (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009), pp.38-56 isbn.978 0 230 20389