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Richard Bourke took his BA at at University College Dublin and his PhD at King's College, Cambridge. He has published on political, intellectual and literary history, focussing on the history of political ideas, particularly on Enlightenment thought and the career of Edmund Burke. He has frequently been a commentator on Northern Ireland for the BBC and RTE and has written for Fortnight Magazine, Prospect, Irish Times, Financial Times, the Times Literary Supplement, and Political Quarterly. He is Professor in the History of Political Thought in the School of History at Queen Mary, University of London.

Books by Richard Bourke

Peace In Ireland

A second editon of Richard Bourke's classic study of the Northern Ireland Troubles, includes a new preface.

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