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Mary C. Murphy

Mary C. Murphy joined Boston College in Fall 2024. Her main research and teaching interests include: Ireland/Northern Ireland and the EU, peace and conflict in Northern Ireland, and the politics of Brexit on the island of Ireland. Her current research focuses on post-Brexit Northern Ireland and relations with the EU and US. In addition to being a member of the Political Science Faculty, she is the Director of the Irish Institute at Boston College.

Jonathan Laurence

Jonathan Laurence听is Director of the Clough Center for the Study of Constitutional Democracy and Professor of Political Science at Boston College. He received a B.A., summa cum laude, from Cornell University, a C.E.P. at Sciences Po, and an M.A. and Ph.D. in Government from Harvard University. His principal areas of teaching and research are comparative politics and religion and politics in Western Europe, Turkey and North Africa. Prof. Laurence's latest book is Coping with Defeat: Sunni Islam, Roman Catholicism and the Modern State (Princeton University Press, 2021). Previously, The Emancipation of Europe's Muslims, was published by Princeton University Press in 2012, and received awards for Best Book in religion and politics and migration and citizenship from the American Political Science Association. His first book, Integrating Islam: Religious and Political Challenges in Contemporary France, co-authored with Justin Va茂sse, was published by Brookings Institution Press (2006) and Odile Jacob (2007) and named an Outstanding Academic Title by Choice Magazine. Prof. Laurence assumed the Directorship of the Clough Center in spring 2022.

Gary Murphy

Gary Murphy was born in in Cork City in 1968 and educated by the Christian Brothers at Sullivan's Quay. He later studied at UCC, BA 1990, MA 1992, and took his doctorate under Prof. Eunan O'Halpin in DCU in 1996. He has worked at DCU since 1995 and is now Full Professor of Politics in the School of Law and Government where he was Head between 2012 and 2018. In 2024 he was was elected a member of the Royal Irish Academy.

In 2007 Prof. Murphy was appointed DCU's first Dean of Graduate Studies and served in that position until 2011. He is a former editor of Irish Political Studies and was President of the Political Studies Association of Ireland from 2009 to 2012. In 2011-12 he was visiting Fulbright Professor of Politics in the Center for European Studies at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He听was a Naughton Fellow and Distinguished Visiting Professor at the Keough Naughton Institute for Irish Studies at the University of Notre Dame in 2016 and 2019.

Prof. Murphy has published extensively on the politics of modern Ireland and is the author of eight books and numerous book chapters and articles. In November 2021, Gill Books published his acclaimed biography of the former听 Fianna F谩il leader and Taoiseach, Charles J. Haughey. Simply titled听Haughey听it was widely reviewed being described as 鈥渕agisterial鈥� in both the Irish Times, and the Mail on Sunday; 鈥渂rilliant鈥� in the Sunday Independent; 鈥済ripping鈥� and 鈥渄efinitive鈥� in the Sunday Times; and a 鈥淪hakespearean portrait of the most cunning of them all鈥� in the Sunday Business Post. It was selected as a book of the year by the Irish Times, Sunday Independent, Sunday Business Post, Mail on Sunday, and Irish Examiner.

In 2016 Prof. Murphy's book听"Electoral Competition in Ireland since 1987: the politics of triumph and despair"听was published by Manchester University Press. It was also widely and positively reviewed as a major reinterpretation of modern Ireland. He is also a renowned authority on the regulation of lobbying and is co-author of the book "Regulating Lobbying: a global comparison"听now in its second edition.

Prof. Murphy's work has received considerable external recognition and has been funded by the Irish Research Council, the Irish Department of the Environment, and the Fulbright Commission. He has appeared before a number of Irish Parliamentary Committees to speak on lobbying regulation, electoral reform, and parliamentary inquiries. His work on lobbying regulation has been presented to the Council of Europe's Venice Commission in Strasbourg, the Political and Constitutional Reform Select Committee of the House of Commons in the UK, and both the Czech and Scottish parliaments. He acted as an adviser to the Government Reform Unit of the Irish Department of Public Expenditure and Reform on the introduction of the government's Regulation of Lobbying Act 2015. In 2012 he was appointed by the Irish Minister of the Environment to the Local Electoral Area Boundary Committee whose report formed the basis for the constituencies of the Irish local elections of 2014.听

Prof. Murphy appears regularly in the Irish print and broadcast media. He has been one of RTE's main political analysts on every Irish general, local, European and presidential election programme since 2007 and currently writes a weekly column for the Irish edition of the Sunday Times.

Theresa Reidy

Dr Theresa Reidy is a senior lecturer in the Department of Government and Politics at University College Cork. Her primary research focus is听voting behaviour at elections and referendums and she has also conducted research on political parties and political institutions. Her recent work has been published in听PS: Political Science and Politics,听Electoral Studies,听Parliamentary Affairs听补苍诲听Politics,听听and she is co-editor of several books on Irish elections and Irish politics.

Theresa has received funding for her research on elections and referendums from the European Commission, Irish Research Council, Irish Aid and the Royal Irish Academy. She is a member of the management board of the听National Elections and Democracy Study (NEDS) which was established in 2024 to undertake a 25 year study of Irish elections and political behaviour. The NEDS project is funded by听An Coimisi煤n Toghch谩in (the Electoral Commission of Ireland) under the Electoral Reform Act (2022).听

In 2014, Theresa Reidy was awarded the Peter O'Brien Visiting Scholar position at the听School of Canadian Irish Studies, Concordia University, Montreal. She was a research fellow at听Universit盲t Konstanz in Spring 2013 and a senior research fellow听at听Universit盲t Konstanz in Spring听2023. In Autumn, 2023, she was awarded the visiting position of Chaire Internationale en Humanit茅s et Sciences Sociales at听Universit茅 de Rennes 2.

Theresa Reidy was听co-editor of the听International Political Science Review听(SAGE Publications) from听2016-2023 and co-editor of听Irish Political Studies听(Taylor and Francis)听from 2012-2016. She was a member of the Executive Committee of the International Political Science Association (IPSA) from 2016-2023.听In 2023, Theresa was co-chair of the World Congress of Political Science in Buenos Aires, Argentina with Prof EY Kim of Seoul National University. She is co-chair of the IPSA Research Committee on Elections and Parties with Prof Daniel Stockemer of the University of Ottawa.听Theresa convened the annual conference of the Political Science Association (PSAI) in University College Cork in 2006 and 2016. She was a member of the Executive Committee of the PSAI for more than a decade. She served as honorary secretary from 2006 to 2011 and as vice president from 2012-2016 and she was a founding member of the association specialist group on Voters, Parties and Elections.

Theresa Reidy is a well-known political scientist. She is a regular contributor to Irish and international broadcast media with more than 350 appearances on stations that include听RTE, Sky News, A情色空间, C情色空间, Al Jazeera,听and the B情色空间. She听has published more than 100 newspaper articles in the local and national press in Ireland, along with more than 30 blogs for national and international publishers. Theresa听has given expert evidence to听D谩il听committees on electoral institutions, electoral management and electoral integrity, institutional reform and the conduct of referendums. She has also addressed the Finance and Constitution Committee of the Scottish National Parliament and the听Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee of the House of Commons on matters relating to the conduct of referendums. She has provided expert policy contributions on a number of occasions to the听Constitutional Convention of Ireland, and the Citizens鈥� Assembly of Ireland.