Dr Tony Craig

Political Studies Association of Ireland

PgCHPE, Staffordshire, 2013.
PhD., Cambridge, 2009
MPhil., Cambridge, 2006
BA, Trinity College, Dublin

• Northern Ireland
• Intelligence and Security Studies
• Archive Research
• Conflict Resolution
• Decolonisation

Northern Ireland
Irish Foreign Policy
British Foreign Policy
Intelligence History
Terrorism
Security Studies
Decolonisation

Advanced Historical Practice: The First World War
Intelligence and International Relations (MA)
Ireland since the Act of Union 1800-present
History of the USA 1776-1941.
Britain and the End of Empire, 1919-1997
Governments, Intelligence Agencies and the Twentieth Century World

• Craig, T 2018, Review of Remembering the Troubles: Contesting the recent past in Northern Ireland. Edited by Jim Smyth. Pp 218. Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press. 2017. $40. Irish Historical Studies, 42(161), 205-206. doi:10.1017/ihs.2018.26

• Craig, Tony. 2018. “‘You will be responsible to the GOC’. Stovepiping and the problem of divergent intelligence gathering networks in Northern Ireland, 1969–1975” Intelligence and National Security, 33:2, 211-226, DOI:10.1080/02684527.2017.1349036

• Craig, T 2017, Stan Orme and the Road to ‘Industrial Democracy’: British attempts at the Politicisation of Working Class Protestants in Northern Ireland 1973-1975 in D McCann, D & C McGrattan (eds) Sunningdale and the Struggle for Democracy in Northern Ireland. Manchester University Press, Manchester.

• Craig, T ‘What Brexit negotiators discussing Northern Ireland today can learn from Anglo-Irish relations in 1973’ in The Conversation 10 November 2017

• Craig, T. ‘Brexit, the British Irish Council and the future of Anglo-Irish diplomacy’ in FourNations History, 20 November 2017

• Craig, T 2017, Review of McCleery, M 2015, ‘Operation Demetrius and its Aftermath: A new History of the use of internment without trial in Northern Ireland 1971-75' Terrorism and Political Violence, DOI 10.1080/09546553.2017.1377565

• Craig, T 2017 Review of Edwards, A. ‘War: a beginner’s guide’, Defence Studies, 17:4, 398-399. DOI: 10.1080/14702436.2017.1352444

• Craig, T 2015, Review of Patterson, H 2014, ‘Ireland’s Violent Frontier: The Border and Anglo-Irish Relations During the Troubles’, Journal of Border Studies vol. 30, no. 4, pp. 561-562. DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2015.1101706

• Craig, T 2015, ‘From countersubversion to counter-insurgency – comparing MI5’s role in British Guiana, Aden and the Northern Ireland civil rights crisis’ Journal of Intelligence History 14:1 (2015). (DOI: 10.1080/16161262.2014.970365)

• Craig, T 2014, ‘Monitoring the Peace? : Northern Ireland’s 1975 ceasefire incident centres and the politicisation of Sinn Féin.’ Terrorism and Political Violence 26:2(2014); 307-319 (DOI:10.1080/09546553.2012.711395).

• Craig, T 2013,, ‘State Stability – Northern Ireland’ in Jane’sIntelligence Review (February 2013).

• Craig, T 2013, ‘Laneside, then left a bit? Britain’s Secret Political Talks with Loyalist Paramilitaries in Northern Ireland, 1973-1976’ Irish Political Studies 29:2 (2014); 298-317 (DOI:10.1080/07907184.2012.732952).

• Craig, T 2012, Review of Prince, S and Warner, G 2012, ‘Belfast and Derry in Revolt: a new history of the start of the Troubles (Dublin: IAP, 2012) in Irish Historical Studies (November 2012).

• Tony Craig, ‘From Backdoors and Back Lanes to Backchannels: Reappraising British Talks with the Provisional IRA, 1970-1974’ Contemporary British History 26:1 (2012); 97-117.

• Craig, T 2010, ‘Sabotage! The origins, development and impact of the IRA’s infrastructural bombing campaigns 1939-1997’ Intelligence and National Security, vol. 25, no. 3, pp. 309-326. DOI: 10.1080/02684527.2010.489781

• Book: Craig, A 2010, Crisis of Confidence: Anglo-Irish Relations in the Early Troubles, Irish Academic Press, Dublin (IRL)