Dr Kieran McConaghy
Lecturer
Kieran is a graduate of Queen’s University Belfast (LLB, MA) and the University of St Andrews, where he studied for his doctorate in International Relations.
His research interests include the history and politics of Northern Ireland, state responses to political violence, the history of political violence, and Irish and British political history.
Books
Chapters
“Emotion, the State, and the Effectiveness of Ethnonationalist Terrorism” in When Does Terrorism Work?(2019) Routledge.
“Transnational Connections” in R. English (ed.), Cambridge History of Terrorism (2021)
IR5923– State Responses to Terrorism
A module that looks at how states respond to challenges from non-state terrorists, and the impact that this has on security and civil liberties.
IR5955 – State Responses to Terrorism (Part Time Distance Learning)
A module that looks at how states respond to challenges from non-state terrorists, and the impact that this has on security and civil liberties.