Richard English
Biographic Data
| ID | 3696878 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Richard English |
| GIVEN NAMES | Richard |
| FAMILY NAME | English |
| SIGNATURE | ENGLISH R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Queen's University Belfast |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 47 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 83 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 43 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 4 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1969 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Conclusion
Does Counter-Terrorism Work?
State responses to terrorism have shaped politics and society globally. But how far, and in what precise ways, has counter-terrorism actually succeeded? This book offers an interrogation of the effectiveness of state responses to terrorist violence. The text defines what effective counter-terrorism would involve, and then tests that layered framework through cross-case, balanced, historically focused comparison of important counter-terrorist camp…
Embodied reconciliation: A new research agenda
Despite a growth in research exploring corporeal dimensions of peacebuilding, scholarship addressing intergroup reconciliation after violent conflict currently pays too little attention to the human body, and to the consequences of the embodied impact of political violence upon reconciliation. Rather, research tends to focus upon the narrative and discursive aspects of relationships between formerly warring parties. As a result, little is underst…
The Cambridge History of Terrorism
The Cambridge History of Terrorism provides a comprehensive reference work on terrorism from a distinctly historical perspective, offering systematic analyses of key themes, problems and case studies from terrorism's long past. Featuring expert scholars from across the globe, this volume examines the phenomenon of terrorism through regional case studies, largely written by local scholars, as well as through thematic essays exploring the relations…
Irish Revolutionaries and the Cold War
The Irish left has received considerable academic attention, particularly for a tradition which has had such limited success in persuading most Irish people that it actually deserves their support. Scholars as diverse in approach as Henry Patterson, Emmet O’Connor, Fearghal McGarry, Paul Bew, Brian Hanley, and Donal O Drisceoil are among those who have produced valuable work on aspects of the subject. John Mulqueen’s fair-minded and well-research…
The Oxford Handbook of Terrorism
The central goal of The Oxford Handbook of Terrorism is to systematically introduce scholars and practitioners to state-of-the-art approaches, methods, and issues in studying this vital phenomenon. This Handbook attempts to give structure and direction to the fast-growing but somewhat disjointed field of terrorism studies. The volume locates terrorism within the wider spectrum of political violence instead of engaging in the widespread tendency t…
Oxford Handbook of Terrorism
The Oxford Handbook of Terrorism systematically integrates the substantial body of scholarship on terrorism and counterterrorism before and after 9/11. In doing so, it introduces scholars and practitioners to state of the art approaches, methods, and issues in studying and teaching these vital phenomena. This Handbook goes further than most existing collections by giving structure and direction to the fast-growing but somewhat disjointed field of…
Change and continuity across the 9/11 fault line: Rethinking twenty-first-century responses to terrorism
This article asks the following questions. Which terrorism threats, challenges and responses did key players consider to have been decisively changed by 9/11? On close inspection now, nearly two decades after those attacks, how are we to assess such claims? What did 9/11 really change regarding terrorism and counterterrorism? And what remained unaltered? The article’s central argument is this: some western states exaggerated the extent to which t…
War in the shadows: The Irish-American Fenians who bombed Victorian Britain. By Shane Kenna. Pp xxx, 410. Sallins: Merrion. 2014
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The future study of terrorism
This article reflects on the central problems to be faced over the next fifty years of the academic study of terrorism. It discusses a series of problems that are sometimes raised (regarding definition, the division between Critical Terrorism Studies and Orthodox Terrorism Studies, and the supposed stagnation in contemporary terrorism research), and argues that these present rather limited difficulties, in reality. It then identifies a greater pr…
Theories of Opiate Addiction in the Early Works of Burroughs and Trocchi
In his article "Theories of Opiate Addiction in the Early Works of Burroughs and Trocchi" Richard English discusses William S. Burroughs's and Alexander Trocchi's representations of opiate addiction with special reference to their early writings. English examines the concept of homo heroin that can be attributed to Burroughs and lists and expounds its qualities. Among these are: immorality, criminality, mono-objectuality, self- and other-indiffer…
Illusions of Terrorism and Counter-Terrorism
Terrorism and counter-terrorism represent enduringly and globally important phenomena, and the mutually shaping relationship between non-state terrorism and state counter-terrorism continues to shape world politics. Illusions of Terrorism and Counter-Terrorism brings together leading scholars in the field to analyse this relationship, and to do so in a distinctive manner. The book sustainedly assesses the interaction of terrorism and counter-terr…
Seán McConville. Irish Political Prisoners, 1920–1962: Pilgrimage of Desolation
It is rare to find scholars engaged in the almost Wagnerian scale of research project of which this book forms the second part. Seán McConville published the first volume of his intended trilogy, Irish Political Prisoners, 1848–1922: Theatres of War, in 2003. The current study takes the story from 1920 up to 1962, with an anticipated final installment covering the years 1966–2000. The sequence of dates between the three books seems perhaps slight…
George Kassimeris.Inside Greek Terrorism
London: Hurst and Company, 2013. 176 pp., £16.99 paper. ISBN: 978-1-849-04283-3. Some years ago, George Kassimeris made a major contribution to understanding terrorism in Greece through his valuabl
Terrorist innovation and international politics: Lessons from an IRA case study
The IRA, 1956–69: Rethinking the Republic
Directions in historiography: History and Irish nationalism
Nationalism remains arguably the most important framework within which to explore, explain and understand modern Irish history. The object of this article is, first, to reflect on some impressive recent scholarship on the Irish nationalist past and, second, to propose a related set of suggestions intended to deepen and enrich our approach to the subject. It therefore offers both a respectful assessment of how we have thought about history and Iri…
How people can influence government policy - stories from the Caucasus
It is very motivating to see vulnerable people becoming strong advocates for their own rights and persuading their government to act; or to see passionate young economists influencing the state and effecting positive change for tens of thousands of poor households. It is impressive to see dedicated work by a national NGO to build successful community health-care programmes that influence the health services of a whole country. The three stories f…
The future of terrorism studies
The Belfast International Terrorism Workshop: Edited by Richard English and Richard Jackson
Englishness and the Union in Contemporary Conservative Thought
This article analyses the importance of arguments developed since 1997 by influential right-wing commentators concerning Englishness and the United Kingdom. Drawing on historical, cultural and political themes, public intellectuals and commentators of the right have variously addressed the constitutional structure of the UK, the politics of devolved government in Wales and Scotland, and the emergence of a more salient contemporary English sensibi…
Englishness in Contemporary British Politics
Pearse's Patriots: St Enda's and the Cult of Boyhood
Belfast's Unholy War: The Troubles of the 1920s
Belfast's Unholy War: The Troubles of the 1920s, by Alan F. Parkinson (Dublin: Four Courts P., 2004; pp. 368. £24.95). This is the first systematic and scholarly book to address the Belfast violence surrounding the birth of Northern Ireland. Much latter-day politics in Ulster has drawn strength from assumptions concerning the events of the 1920s, so it is particularly valuable to have this coldly balanced account of those fervent days. Alan Parki…
Public Intellectuals and the Question of British Decline
This article proposes a refocusing of the debate on British decline, to concentrate attention on declinism rather than on historical decline itself. In particular, it addresses the ways in which intellectuals have perceived, diagnosed and proposed remedies for decline. Public intellectuals have exerted significant influence on British politics in ways not usually acknowledged in scholarly analysis. We explore three key themes in intellectual decl…
Unionism in Modern Ireland: New Perspectives on Politics and Culture
This collection of essays brings together exciting, fresh work by young scholars working on vital aspects of modern Irish unionism. Its range is broad, taking in much material (literary, political, cu
Radicals and the Republic: Socialist Republicanism in the Irish Free State, 1925-1937
This is a comprehensive and scholarly study of socialist republicanism in independent Ireland between the wars. The 1934 Republican Congress movement exemplified the socialist republican stance, holding that 'a Republic of a united Ireland will never be achieved except through a struggle which uproots capitalism on its way'. In this carefully argued study, Richard English demonstrates that the contradictory analysis which characterized the republ…
Radicals and the Republic: Socialist republicanism in the Irish Free State, 1925-1937
This book studies socialist republicanism in independent Ireland between the wars. The 1934 Republican Congress movement exemplified the socialist republican stance, holding that a Republic of a united Ireland will never be achieved except through a struggle which uproots capitalism on its way. This book demonstrates that the contradictory analysis which characterized the republican left during these years explains its political failure. It explo…
The future study of terrorism
This article reflects on the central problems to be faced over the next fifty years of the academic study of terrorism. It discusses a series of problems that are sometimes raised (regarding definition, the division between Critical Terrorism Studies and Orthodox Terrorism Studies, and the supposed stagnation in contemporary terrorism research), and argues that these present rather limited difficulties, in reality. It then identifies a greater pr…
Pearse's Patriots: St Enda's and the Cult of Boyhood
Belfast's Unholy War: The Troubles of the 1920s
Belfast's Unholy War: The Troubles of the 1920s, by Alan F. Parkinson (Dublin: Four Courts P., 2004; pp. 368. £24.95). This is the first systematic and scholarly book to address the Belfast violence surrounding the birth of Northern Ireland. Much latter-day politics in Ulster has drawn strength from assumptions concerning the events of the 1920s, so it is particularly valuable to have this coldly balanced account of those fervent days. Alan Parki…
Public Intellectuals and the Question of British Decline
This article proposes a refocusing of the debate on British decline, to concentrate attention on declinism rather than on historical decline itself. In particular, it addresses the ways in which intellectuals have perceived, diagnosed and proposed remedies for decline. Public intellectuals have exerted significant influence on British politics in ways not usually acknowledged in scholarly analysis. We explore three key themes in intellectual decl…
Englishness in Contemporary British Politics
Directions in historiography: History and Irish nationalism
Nationalism remains arguably the most important framework within which to explore, explain and understand modern Irish history. The object of this article is, first, to reflect on some impressive recent scholarship on the Irish nationalist past and, second, to propose a related set of suggestions intended to deepen and enrich our approach to the subject. It therefore offers both a respectful assessment of how we have thought about history and Iri…
Englishness and the Union in Contemporary Conservative Thought
This article analyses the importance of arguments developed since 1997 by influential right-wing commentators concerning Englishness and the United Kingdom. Drawing on historical, cultural and political themes, public intellectuals and commentators of the right have variously addressed the constitutional structure of the UK, the politics of devolved government in Wales and Scotland, and the emergence of a more salient contemporary English sensibi…
Cultural Traditions' and Political Ambiguity
Change and continuity across the 9/11 fault line: Rethinking twenty-first-century responses to terrorism
This article asks the following questions. Which terrorism threats, challenges and responses did key players consider to have been decisively changed by 9/11? On close inspection now, nearly two decades after those attacks, how are we to assess such claims? What did 9/11 really change regarding terrorism and counterterrorism? And what remained unaltered? The article’s central argument is this: some western states exaggerated the extent to which t…
The future of terrorism studies
National land cover mapping by remote sensing
Embodied reconciliation: A new research agenda
Despite a growth in research exploring corporeal dimensions of peacebuilding, scholarship addressing intergroup reconciliation after violent conflict currently pays too little attention to the human body, and to the consequences of the embodied impact of political violence upon reconciliation. Rather, research tends to focus upon the narrative and discursive aspects of relationships between formerly warring parties. As a result, little is underst…
Terrorist innovation and international politics: Lessons from an IRA case study
The Belfast International Terrorism Workshop: Edited by Richard English and Richard Jackson
British Decline or the Politics of Declinism
Books reviewed in this article: C. Barnett The Audit of War: The Illusion and Reality of Britain as a Great Nation P. Clarke and C. Trebilcock (eds) Understanding Decline: Perceptions and Realities of British Economic Performance B. Collins and K. Robbins (eds) British Culture and Economic Decline A. Gamble Britain in Decline: Economic Policy, Political Strategy and the British State W. Hutton The State We're In P. Kennedy The Rise and Fall of th…
Paying no heed to public clamor’: Irish republican solipsism in the 1930s
To be frank, it is apparent that an agreement between your forces and the forces of the I.R.A. is a national necessity. They can do the things you will not care to do or cannot do in the face of public criticism, while the I.R.A. pay no heed to public clamor so long as they feel they are doing a national duty. Joseph McGarrity to Eamon de Valera, 2 Oct. 1933 This article will concentrate on two Irish republican projects from the 1930s: Cumann Pob…
Socialism and republican schism in Ireland: The emergence of the Republican Congress in 1934
In the words of one veteran communist, the Irish republican movement has experienced throughout its existence ‘a constant searching’ on social issues. In 1934 the Irish Republican Army (I.R.A.) was fractured when a group of members who believed in socialism seceded to establish the Republican Congress movement. This article will examine a programme for government published early in 1934 by the I.R.A., consider the schism that occurred in March 19…
Note on Relationships among Mental Ability Scores, Teacher's Rankings, and Rate of Acquisition for Four-Year-Old Kindergarteners
Mode of Reinforcement, Grade Level, and Task Difficulty in Learning
To explain the inconsistencies reported in research noting different ages of learners, types of materials received, and delays of reinforcement, students in Grades 5, 8, and 11 received immediate and delayed reinforcement using easy and difficult material. Dubois residual gain scores were used to factor out the correlation between pre- and posttest scores. Results of analyses of variance indicate inconsistent findings concerning the effect of rei…
Effects of Four Sets of Instructions on Ability Groups Predetermined by an Intelligence Scale
342 Ss were administered the Kuhlmann-Anderson Test using 4 different sets of instructions to 3 predetermined ability groups within each of 3 grade levels. Analysis of variance considering variation in response related to ability levels, grade level (age), instruction, and sex was used. Instructional sets and sex differences were not significant; however, ability and grade level (age) were
Reading Order and Recall: A Developmental Look
The study investigated the effect of reading order and grade level on forward and backward measures of recall. 168 Ss from three grade levels learned an 8-pair paired-associate list of meaningful words. Word pairs were read either left-to-right or right-to-left. Appropriate practice trials and instructions were given prior to learning the list. Groups at each grade level received a cued recall test in both the A-B and B-A direction after learning…
Himalayan State Formation and the Impact of British Rule in the Nineteenth Century
Richard English, Himalayan State Formation and the Impact of British Rule in the Nineteenth Century, Mountain Research and Development, Vol. 5, No. 1, Convergences and Differences in Mountain Economies and Societies: A Comparison of the Andes and Himalaya (Feb., 1985), pp. 61-78
Select Bibliography of Writings on Irish Economic and Social History: Published in 1989
Socialism and republican schism in Ireland: The emergence of the Republican Congress in 1934
In the words of one veteran communist, the Irish republican movement has experienced throughout its existence ‘a constant searching’ on social issues. In 1934 the Irish Republican Army (I.R.A.) was fractured when a group of members who believed in socialism seceded to establish the Republican Congress movement. This article will examine a programme for government published early in 1934 by the I.R.A., consider the schism that occurred in March 19…
Select bibliography of publications on Irish politics during 1990
Select bibliography of publications on Irish politics during 1990." Irish Political Studies, 6(1), pp. 151–164
Ireland 1912–1985. Politics and society
Select bibliography of publications on Irish politics during 1991∗
Select bibliography of publications on Irish politics during 1992∗
Paying no heed to public clamor’: Irish republican solipsism in the 1930s
To be frank, it is apparent that an agreement between your forces and the forces of the I.R.A. is a national necessity. They can do the things you will not care to do or cannot do in the face of public criticism, while the I.R.A. pay no heed to public clamor so long as they feel they are doing a national duty. Joseph McGarrity to Eamon de Valera, 2 Oct. 1933 This article will concentrate on two Irish republican projects from the 1930s: Cumann Pob…
Select bibliography of publications on Irish politics during 1993∗
Cultural Traditions' and Political Ambiguity
Radicals and the Republic: Socialist republicanism in the Irish Free State, 1925-1937
This book studies socialist republicanism in independent Ireland between the wars. The 1934 Republican Congress movement exemplified the socialist republican stance, holding that a Republic of a united Ireland will never be achieved except through a struggle which uproots capitalism on its way. This book demonstrates that the contradictory analysis which characterized the republican left during these years explains its political failure. It explo…
Defining the nation: Recent historiography and Irish nationalism
This article considers problems raised in recent historical scholarship concerning the definition of Irish national identity. Catholicism's growing importance in this identity is shown by comparing the eighteenth century United Irishmen, who combined secular and sectarian republicanism, the romantic nationalism of the nineteenth century Young Ireland movement, and the almost exclusively Catholic Irish Republican Army of this century. However, thi…
Radicals and the Republic: Socialist Republicanism in the Irish Free State, 1925-1937
This is a comprehensive and scholarly study of socialist republicanism in independent Ireland between the wars. The 1934 Republican Congress movement exemplified the socialist republican stance, holding that 'a Republic of a united Ireland will never be achieved except through a struggle which uproots capitalism on its way'. In this carefully argued study, Richard English demonstrates that the contradictory analysis which characterized the republ…
The Same People with Different Relatives? Modern Scholarship, Unionists and the Irish Nation
Responding to the suggestion that there were two nations rather than one in Ireland, the eminent Irish republican Peadar O’Donnell impishly replied that he thought it ‘nonsense to suggest that we are two peoples. We are the same people with different relatives.’1 O’Donnell’s socialism made him something of a dissident figure within the modern republican movement in Ireland.2 But in his dismissal of the problem which Irish unionism posed for Irish…
National land cover mapping by remote sensing
Unionism in Modern Ireland: New Perspectives on Politics and Culture
This collection of essays brings together exciting, fresh work by young scholars working on vital aspects of modern Irish unionism. Its range is broad, taking in much material (literary, political, cu
Ernie O’Malley: IRA Intellectual
Ernie O'Malley (1897–1957) was one of the most talented and colourful of modern Irish republicans. An important IRA leader in the 1916–1923 Irish Revolution, this bookish gunman subsequently became a distinguished intellectual, and the author of two classic autobiographical accounts of the revolutionary period: On Another Man's Wound and The Singing Flame. His post-revolutionary life took on a bohemian flavour. Travelling extensively in Europe an…
British Decline or the Politics of Declinism
Books reviewed in this article: C. Barnett The Audit of War: The Illusion and Reality of Britain as a Great Nation P. Clarke and C. Trebilcock (eds) Understanding Decline: Perceptions and Realities of British Economic Performance B. Collins and K. Robbins (eds) British Culture and Economic Decline A. Gamble Britain in Decline: Economic Policy, Political Strategy and the British State W. Hutton The State We're In P. Kennedy The Rise and Fall of th…
Public Intellectuals and the Question of British Decline
This article proposes a refocusing of the debate on British decline, to concentrate attention on declinism rather than on historical decline itself. In particular, it addresses the ways in which intellectuals have perceived, diagnosed and proposed remedies for decline. Public intellectuals have exerted significant influence on British politics in ways not usually acknowledged in scholarly analysis. We explore three key themes in intellectual decl…
Pearse's Patriots: St Enda's and the Cult of Boyhood
Belfast's Unholy War: The Troubles of the 1920s
Belfast's Unholy War: The Troubles of the 1920s, by Alan F. Parkinson (Dublin: Four Courts P., 2004; pp. 368. £24.95). This is the first systematic and scholarly book to address the Belfast violence surrounding the birth of Northern Ireland. Much latter-day politics in Ulster has drawn strength from assumptions concerning the events of the 1920s, so it is particularly valuable to have this coldly balanced account of those fervent days. Alan Parki…
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