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Paul Anthony Elliott Bew, Baron Bew （born 22 January 1950）, is a British historian from Northern Ireland and a life peer.
He has worked at Queen's University Belfast since 1979, and is currently Professor of Irish Politics, a position he has held since 1991.
Bew was born in Belfast.
He attended Campbell College, Belfast before studying for his BA and PhD at Pembroke College, Cambridge.
His first book, Land and the National Question in Ireland, 1858–82 was a revisionist study that challenged nationalist historiography by examining the clash between landowners and tenants as well as the conflict between large and small tenants.
His third book, a short study of Charles Stewart Parnell, challenged some of the arguments of the award-winning biography of Parnell by F. S. L. Lyons, though Lyons, one of the "doyens" of modern Irish history, acknowledged the young historian's arguments
by stating that "Nothing Dr Bew writes is without interest." Bew's central thesis is that Parnell was a fundamentally conservative figure whose ultimate aim was to secure a continuing position of leadership for the Protestant gentry in a Home Rule Ireland.
In 2007, Oxford University Press published Bew's Ireland: The Politics of Enmity 1789–2006, which forms part of the Oxford History of Modern Europe series.
The book received positive reviews.
Bew acted as a historical advisor to the Bloody Sunday Inquiry between 1998 and 2001.
Bew was also involved in the project by Boston College to record interviews by former participants in the Irish "Troubles", including former republican and loyalist paramilitaries.
In 2014, Gerry Ad...