Niall Ó Dochartaigh

Professor of Political Science and Director of the MA Public Policy at the University of Galway. I have published extensively on the Northern Ireland conflict, on peace negotiations and on territorial conflict. Publications include 'Civil Rights to Armalites: Derry and the birth of the Irish Troubles' and the co-edited books 'Political Violence in Context' and 'Dynamics of Political Change in Ireland: Making and Breaking a Divided Island'. My most recent book, 'Deniable Contact: Back-channel Negotiation in Northern Ireland', provides the first full-length study of the secret negotiations and back-channels that were used in repeated efforts to end the Northern Ireland conflict. It won the 2022 Brian Farrell Book Prize of the Political Studies Association of Ireland, was shortlisted for the 27th Christopher Ewart-Biggs Literary Prize and was awarded a Special Commendation Prize in the National University of Ireland Historical Research Prize.