Stephen Kelly

Prof. Stephen Kelly is Head of the School of Humanities and Professor of Modern Irish History and British-Irish Relations at Liverpool Hope University. He has published extensively in the field of Modern Irish History, British-Irish Relations, and the Northern Ireland Conflict.

Stephen's publications include:

☆ The Broken Emerald': Edward Heath and the early years of the Northern Ireland Troubles, 1968-1975 (Bloomsbury, 2026).

☆Gerald Boland: A Life (Wordwell Books, 2024).

☆ Margaret Thatcher, the Conservative Party and the Northern Ireland conflict, 1975-1990 (Bloomsbury, 2021; Paperback edition, 2022). Winner of the 2022 ‘CHOICE Outstanding Academic Titles’.

☆‘A failed political entity’: Charles Haughey and the Northern Ireland question, 1945-1992 (Merrion Press, 2016);

☆Frank Aiken: Nationalist and Internationalist (Irish Academic Press, 2014) edited collection B. Evans & S. Kelly.

☆Fianna Fáil, partition and Northern Ireland, 1926-1971 (Irish Academic Press, 2013);

☆A conservative at heart? The political and social thought of John Henry Newman (Columba Press, 2012).