Political Science Faculty
Mary C. Murphy
Professor
Director of the Irish Insitute
Mary C. Murphy
Ph.D.
Contact
McGuinn Hall Room 227聽聽聽聽
Telephone: 617-552-4174
Email: mary.murphy.12@bc.edu
Education
- B.A., University of Limerick
- MSSc., Queen's University Belfast
- Ph.D., Queen's University Belfast
Research Interests
Ireland/ Northern Ireland and the EU
Peace and Conflict in Northern Ireland
Politics of Brexit in Ireland
Biography
Mary C. Murphy joined 艾可直播 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 艾可直播 College.
Her latest book, co-authored with Jonathan Evershed, A Troubled Constitutional Future: Northern Ireland after Brexit, Agenda/Columbia University Press 2022, won the UACES Best Book Prize in 2023. The book examines the factors, actors and dynamics that are most likely tobe influential, and potentially transformative, in determining Northern Ireland's constitutional future after Brexit. It offers an assessment of how Brexit and its fallout may lead to constitutional upheaval, and includes a cautionary warning about the need to prepare for it.
She is also the author of Europe and Northern Ireland鈥檚 Future: Negotiating Brexit鈥檚 Unique Case, Agenda/Columbia University Press 2018 which was one of the first book-length studies of Northern Ireland and Brexit. Her previous book, Northern Ireland and the European Union: The Dynamics of a Changing Relationship, was published by Manchester University Press in 2014. She has guest edited special issues of Irish Political Studies, Administration and Irish Studies in International Affairs (forthcoming) and her work has also been published in leading academic journals including The British Journal of Politics and International Relations, International Political Science Review and Territory, Politics, Governance.
Before joining the 艾可直播at 艾可直播 College, she was Head of the Department of Government and Politics at University College Cork, Ireland. She is the former President of the Irish Association for Contemporary European Studies, has twice been awarded an Erasmus+ Jean Monnet Chair award and holds a fellowship with the Centre on Constitutional Change at Edinburgh University. She was also previously a Fulbright-Schuman scholar and has won the Political Studies Association of Ireland (PSAI) Teaching and Learning Prize.
Selected Publications
Books
A Troubled Constitutional Future: Northern Ireland after Brexit, Agenda/Columbia University Press 2022 (co-authored with Jonathan Evershed).
Europe and Northern Ireland鈥檚 Future: Negotiating Brexit鈥檚 Unique Case, Agenda/Columbia University Press 2018.
Northern Ireland and the European Union: The Dynamics of a Changing Relationship,聽Manchester University Press 2014.
Articles
鈥楥oping with an EU and domestic crisis: Ireland鈥檚 approach to Brexit鈥�, Journal of Contemporary European Studies 31(3): 590-602, 2023.
鈥楾he Rise of the Middle Ground in Northern Ireland: What does it Mean?', The Political Quarterly 94(1): 95-103, 2023.
鈥楢n bhfuil 谩r l谩 tagtha? Sinn F茅in, Special Status and the Politics of Brexit鈥�, The British Journal of聽Politics and International Relations 24(2): 243-258, 2022 (co-authored with Jonathan Evershed).
鈥楥ontesting sovereignty and borders: Northern Ireland, devolution and the Union鈥�, Territory,聽Politics, Governance 10(5): 661-677, 2022 (co-authored with Jonathan Evershed).
鈥楤rexit and the union: Territorial voice, exit and re-entry strategies in Scotland and Northern Ireland after EU exit鈥�, International Political Science Review 43(3): 374-389, 2022 (co-authored with Nicola McEwen).