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Dr Niall Ó Dochartaigh M.A., Ph.D.
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Biography:
| I started out as a historian, spending a year in Derry in 1987 doing
research for an MA in history on Derry 'before the Troubles' under the
supervision of Gearóid Ó Tuathaigh in Galway. The thesis looked at the
origins of the civil rights movement and the conflict in the 1950s and
60s.
After spending a year in Berlin I started a PhD in politics at Queen's University Belfast with Paul Bew in 1990, looking at the escalation of conflict in the early 1970s. The thesis was published as the book 'From Civil rights to Armalites'. After a number of years when I was concerned primarily with the online world (establishing the University of Ulster's 'Conflict Data Service' and writing two textbooks on Internet research) I have returned in the past few years to research on conflict. My principal current interests are in conflict and territoriality, conflict and new technologies and attempts to moderate or resolve conflict. I am a founding convener of the ECPR Standing Group on Political Violence and co-convener of the Political Studies Association of Ireland Specialist Group on Peace and Conflict. I have organised several conferences, workshops and panels on the theme of peace and conflict in recent years, in Galway, Dublin, London and Rekjavik. Full details of these events are available on my blog at niallodoc.wordpress.ie. At NUI Galway I am cluster leader for the Conflict, Rights and Security cluster in the Institute for Business, Social Sciences and Public Policy and Director of the Centre for the Study of Nationalism and Organised Violence (CSNOV). |
Books
| O'Dochartaigh, N. (1997) From Civil Rights to Armalites: Derry and the birth of the Irish Troubles, 1st edn. Cork: Cork University Press. [Details] |
| O Dochartaigh, N. (2002) The Internet Research handbook: a practical guide for students and researchers in the social sciences. : Sage London; Thousand Oaks; Delhi. [Details] |
| O Dochartaigh, N. (2005) From Civil Rights to Armalites: Derry and the Birth of the Irish Troubles, 2nd edition. : Palgrave Macmillan Basingstoke, England. [Details] |
| O'Dochartaigh, N. (2007) Internet Research Skills, 2nd Edition. London; Los Angeles; New Delhi: Sage. [Details] |
| Ó Dochartaigh, Niall (2012) Internet Research Skills, 3rd Edition. London; Los Angeles; New Delhi: Sage. [Details] |
Book Chapters
| Ó Dochartaigh, Niall (1998) 'The Role of Government' In: Robinson, G., Gray, A. & Heenan, D. (eds) Social Attitudes in Northern Ireland: The Seventh Report. Aldershot: Ashgate. [Details] |
| Ó Dochartaigh, Niall (1999) 'The Politics of Housing; Social Change and Collective Action in Derry in the 1960s' In: Derry and Londonderry: History and Society. Dublin: Geography Publications. [Details] |
| O'Dochartaigh, Niall (2007) 'Commentary on William Hazleton's: Devolution and the diffusion of power: the internal and transnational dimensions of the Belfast Agreement' In: McGrath, Conor and O'Malley, Eoin (eds). Irish Political Studies Reader: key contributions. London: Routledge. [Details] |
| O'Dochartaigh, N. (2008) 'Northern Ireland' In: In Martin Klimke and Joachim Scharloth, eds, 1968 in Europe: A History of Protest and Activism, 1956-77. New York; London: Palgrave. [Details] |
| Ó Dochartaigh, Niall (2009) 'Conflict, Territory and online Boundaries: Drawing wider Lessons from a Belfast Case Study' In: In Juergen Barkhoff and Helmut Eberhart eds. Networks across borders and frontiers. Graz: Peter Lang. [Details] |
| Ó Dochartaigh, Niall (2009) 'The Contact: understanding a communication channel between the British government and the IRA' In: Joseph J. Popiolkowski and Nicholas J. Cull (eds) Public Diplomacy, Cultural Interventions & the Peace Process in Northern Ireland: Track Two to Peace?. Los Angeles: Figueroa Press. [Details] |
| Ó Dochartaigh, Niall (2010) 'Searching the Keyword Search Engines' In: Study Skills: The Essential Guide for Students. London: Sage; Amazon. [Details] |
| O'Dochartaigh, N. (2010) 'Nation and Neighbourhood: Nationalist Mobilisation and Local Solidarities in the North of Ireland' In: In Adrian Guelke (ed.) The Challenges of Ethno-Nationalism. Basingstoke: Palgrave. [Details] |
| Ó Dochartaigh, Niall (2010) 'Introduction: Why not just search Google' In: Study Skills: The Essential Guide for Students. London: Sage; Amazon. [Details] |
| Maleševic, Siniša and Ó Dochartaigh, Niall (2011) 'Secession and Political Violence' In: Sasa Pavkovic and Peter Radan (eds) Research Companion on Secession. Aldershot: Ashgate. [Details] |
Peer Reviewed Journals
| O'Dochartaigh, N. (1995) 'Sure it’s hard to keep up with the splits here: Irish-American responses to the outbreak of conflict in Northern Ireland, 1968-1974'. Irish Political Studies, 10 :138-160. [Details] |
| O Dochartaigh, N (2007) 'Conflict, territory and new technologies: Online interaction at a Belfast interface'. Political Geography, 26 :474-491. [DOI] [Details] |
| O'Dochartaigh, N. (2009) 'Reframing Online: Ulster Loyalists Imagine an American Audience'. Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power, 16 (1). [Details] |
| O Dochartaigh, N (2010) 'Bloody Sunday: Error or Design?'. Contemporary British History, 24 :89-108. [DOI] [Details] |
| O'Dochartaigh, N. & Bosi, L. (2010) 'Territoriality and Mobilization: the Civil Rights Movement in Northern Ireland'. Mobilization, 15 (4):405-424. [Details] |
Ó Dochartaigh, Niall (2011) 'The role of an intermediary in back-channel negotiation: Evidence from the Brendan Duddy Papers'. Dynamics of Asymmetric Conflict, 4 (3):214-225.  [DOI] [Details] |
| Ó Dochartaigh, Niall (2011) 'Together in the middle: Back-Channel Negotiation in the Irish Peace Process'. Journal of Peace Research, 48 (6):767-780. [DOI] [Details] |
| Ó Dochartaigh, Niall (2011) 'Territoriality and Order in the North of Ireland'. Irish Political Studies, 26 (3):313-328. [Details] |
| Ó Dochartaigh, Niall (2012) 'Republicanism domesticated?'. Political Quarterly, 83 (2). [Details] |
| Ó Dochartaigh, Niall and Svensson, Isak (2013) 'The Exit Option: Mediation and the Termination of Negotiations in the Northern Ireland Conflict'. International Journal of Conflict Management, 24 (1). [Details] |
Other Journals
| O'Dochartaigh, N. (2010) 'Bloody Sunday: cock-up or conspiracy' History Ireland 18 (5) :40-43. [Details] |
| Ó Dochartaigh, Niall (2011) 'IRA Ceasefire 1975: a missed opportunity for peace?' Field Day Review 7 :50-77. [Details] |
Book Review
| O'Dochartaigh, N. (1998) Jens Hoff, Ivan Horrocks and Pieter Tops: Democratic Governance and New Technology: Technologically mediated innovations in political practice in Western Europe. Book Review [Details] |
| O'Dochartaigh, N. (2001) Colin Coulter: Contemporary Northern Irish Society: An introduction. Irish Journal of Sociology. Book Review [Details] |
| O'Dochartaigh, N. (2002) Wayne A.Selcher: The WWW Virtual Library: International Affairs Resources. Book Review [Details] |
| O'Dochartaigh, N. (2002) Review of Pippa Norris: Digital Divide: Civic Engagement, Information Poverty and The Internet Worldwide. Book Review [Details] |
| O'Dochartaigh, Niall (2002) Brendan O'Leary, Ian S. Lustick, Thomas Callaghy: Right-sizing the State: The Politics of Moving Borders. Book Review [Details] |
| O'Dochartaigh, N. (2003) Liam Clarke and Kathryn Johnston, Martin McGuinness: From Guns to Government. Book Review [Details] |
| O'Dochartaigh, Niall (2006) Review of Stanley Engerman and Jacob Metzer: Land Rights, Ethno-Nationality, and Sovereignty in History. Book Review [Details] |
| O'Dochartaigh, N. (2007) Hayes, Patrick and Campbell, Jim, Bloody Sunday: Trauma, Pain and Politics. Pluto, 2005. Book Review [Details] |
| Ó Dochartaigh, Niall (2009) Review of Northern Ireland’s ’68: Civil Rights, Global Revolt and the Origins of the Troubles by Simon Prince. Book Review [Details] |
| Ó Dochartaigh, Niall (2011) Review of Indivisible Territory and the Politics of Legitimacy: Jerusalem and Northern Ireland by Stacie E. Goddard. Book Review [Details] |
Conference Paper
| O Dochartaigh, Niall (2000) The Irish conflict on the Internet, “Global Information Warfare” conference, University of Missouri, Columbia. Conference Paper [Details] |
| O Dochartaigh, Niall (2000) Language and group identity: an awkward relationship. Theorising Collectivities conference, NUI, Galway. Conference Paper [Details] |
| O Dochartaigh, Niall (2001) Building new international networks online: the case of Ulster Loyalists. Political Science Association of Ireland annual conference, Galway. Conference Paper [Details] |
| O Dochartaigh, Niall (2003) Increasing mobilization potential: Ulster Loyalists reach out to an American audience. ‘Online Political Activism: Mobilizing and Organizing in the Age of the Internet’. USC Annenberg School for Communication, Los Angeles. Conference Paper [Details] |
| O'Dochartaigh, N. (2004) Internet Politics. Politics Society, TCD. Trinity College Dublin: Conference Paper [Details] |
| O'Dochartaigh, N. (2004) Unionist identity in the Age of the Internet. Unionist Identities research seminar. University College Dublin: Conference Paper [Details] |
| Ó Dochartaigh, Niall (2004) Ulster Loyalists imagine an American audience. Political Studies Association of Ireland annual conference. University of Limerick. Conference Paper [Details] |
| O Dochartaigh, Niall (2004) Ulster Loyalists imagine an American Audience. National University of Ireland, Maynooth. Conference Paper [Details] |
| O'Dochartaigh, N. (2005) Whitecity under attack: territorial conflict at an online interface. Borders and Margins conference. NUI Galway: Conference Paper [Details] |
| O'Dochartaigh, N. (2005) Panelist on round table: Useful Pasts? Myths and Realities of the ‘ Ulster Scots’/Scotch-Irish’ in Ireland and America. American Conference for Irish studies. University of Notre Dame: Conference Paper [Details] |
| O'Dochartaigh, N. (2005) Security policy divisions and Bloody Sunday. Political Studies Association of Ireland annual conference. Belfast: Conference Paper [Details] |
| O'Dochartaigh, N. (2005) Political Mobilisation Online. Department of Electronic & Electrical Engineering, Network and Telecommunications research unit seminar. Trinity College, Dublin: Conference Paper [Details] |
| O'Dochartaigh, N. (2005) Speaker on panel: The Truth of Bloody Sunday: Perspectives. Bloody Sunday Week. Derry: Conference Paper [Details] |
| O'Dochartaigh, N. (2006) Conflict, communication and online boundaries. First Galway conference of Irish Studies. Conference Paper [Details] |
| O'Dochartaigh, N. (2006) Conflict, territory and online boundaries: a case-study from Belfast. Royal Geographical Society - Institute of British Geographers annual conference. London: Conference Paper [Details] |
| O'Dochartaigh, N. (2007) Bloody Sunday. Public talk at NUI, Galway. NUI, Galway: Conference Paper [Details] |
| O'Dochartaigh, N. (2007) Between Nation and Neighbourhood. Association for the Study of Ethnicity and Nationalism annual conference. LSE, London: Conference Paper [Details] |
| O'Dochartaigh, N. (2007) Territoriality in Frank Wrights ‘Northern Ireland: a comparative analysis. Political Studies Association of Ireland annual conference. Dublin: Conference Paper [Details] |
| O'Dochartaigh, N. (2007) The Contact: understanding a communication 'pipe' between the British government and the IRA. Track Two to Peace? . Public Diplomacy, Cultural Interventions and the Peace Process in Northern Ireland. USC Annenberg School of Communication, Los Angeles: Conference Paper [Details] |
| O'Dochartaigh, N. (2007) Nation and Neighbourhood in the North of Ireland. QUB Beyond the Nation conference. Queen?s University, Belfast: Conference Paper [Details] |
| O'Dochartaigh, N. (2007) A multidisciplinary Approach to demarcation and Connectedness in European Culture and Society. Coimbra Group Conference - Networking across Borders and Frontiers. University of Graz, Austria: Conference Paper [Details] |
| O'Dochartaigh, N. (2007) A Botched State or Triumph of Terrorism?. The Northern Ireland Troubles Contesting History series. School of Histories and Humanities, Trinity College Dublin: Conference Paper [Details] |
| O'Dochartaigh, N. (2008) Territoriality and the Civil Rights Movement in Northern Ireland. BSA Theory Study Group Conference; 1968: Impact and Implications. Conference Paper [Details] |
| O'Dochartaigh, N. (2008) Understanding Bloody Sunday. Public talk at NUI, Galway, under the auspices of the Centre for Irish Studies. NUI, Galway: Conference Paper [Details] |
| Ó Dochartaigh, Niall (2009) Policing the uneven spaces of the ethnic frontier (QUB ). Conference Paper [Details] |
| Ó Dochartaigh, Niall (2009) Bloody Sunday and the Politics of the British Army. Political Studies Association of Ireland annual conference, Liverpool Hope University. Conference Paper [Details] |
| Ó Dochartaigh, Niall (2009) Bloody Sunday: Design or Error? American Conference for Irish Studies, NUI Galway. Conference Paper [Details] |
| Ó Dochartaigh, Niall (2010) ‘Nationalism, Negotiation and the Divisibility of Territory’. Nationalism and Organised Violence Conference, NUI Galway Centre for the Study of Nationalism and Organised Violence in association with the Political Studies Association of Ireland specialist group on Peace and Conflict. Conference Paper [Details] |
| Ó Dochartaigh, Niall (2010) Nationalism, Negotiation and the Divisibility of Territory’. Political Studies Association of Ireland annual conference, DIT, Dublin. Conference Paper [Details] |
| Ó Dochartaigh, Niall (2010) ‘Power, Rationality and the Bloody Sunday Inquiry’. Bloody Sunday Symposium. Dept of History, King’s College London. Conference Paper [Details] |
| Ó Dochartaigh, Niall (2010) ‘IRA Ceasefire 1975: A missed opportunity for peace?’ Reassessing the 1970s. Centre for Contemporary British History, UCL, London. Conference Paper [Details] |
| Ó Dochartaigh, Niall (2011) ‘ Outcomes of negotiated deradicalization in the Irish peace process’. European Consortium for Political Research general conference, University of Iceland, Reykjavik. Conference Paper [Details] |
| Ó Dochartaigh, Niall (2011) ‘Trusting the enemy: the development of a negotiating relationship between the British Government and the IRA ‘. PSAI annual conference, UCD, Dublin. Conference Paper [Details] |
| Ó Dochartaigh, Niall (2011) ‘The Provisional IRA: a movement oriented to negotiation’. Reassessing the IRA, Annual London Irish Studies symposium, King’s College London. Conference Paper [Details] |
| Ó Dochartaigh, Niall (2011) ‘Cities inside out: the externalization of cities in conflict’. Divided Cities conference, Queen’s University Belfast. Conference Paper [Details] |
Invited papers
| O'Dochartaigh, N. (2008) New Technologies in a Divided City, QUB. Queen?s University, Belfast: Invited papers [Details] |
| Ó Dochartaigh, Niall (2009) 'The Brendan Duddy papers’. Revisiting the Troubles: new research findings. Policy Exchange, London. Invited papers [Details] |
| Ó Dochartaigh, Niall (2009) ‘Bloody Sunday: Error or Design?’ St Catherine’s College, Oxford. Invited papers [Details] |
| Ó Dochartaigh, Niall (2010) ‘Through Secret Channels: Covert Negotiation in the Irish Peace Process’. Public talk, National Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies, University of Otago, New Zealand. Invited papers [Details] |
| Ó Dochartaigh, Niall (2010) ‘Truth, history and public inquiry’. Auckland Branch of Society for Legal and Social Philosophy. Invited papers [Details] |
| Ó Dochartaigh, Niall (2011) Republicanism domesticated? All-Ireland politics in an age of austerity’. Northern Ireland: Fragile Peace in an Age of Austerity, Birkbeck College, London. Invited papers [Details] |
| Ó Dochartaigh, Niall (2011) ‘ Ending the Northern Ireland Conflict: Back-channel Negotiation in the Irish Peace Process’. School of Politics, International Studies and Philosophy, Queen’s University, Belfast. Invited papers [Details] |
| Ó Dochartaigh, Niall (2011) Making Peace in Secret: Back-channel Negotiation in the Irish Peace Process’. University of Limerick Dept of Politics and Public Administration seminar. Invited papers [Details] |
Other Item
| Ó Dochartaigh, Niall (2011) ‘Assessing Saville’. Panel discussion at the Bloody Sunday Weekend, Derry. Other Item [Details] |
Reviews
| O'Dochartaigh, N. (1998) Berch Berberoglu: The National Question: Nationalism, Ethnic Conflict, and Self-Determination in the 20th Century. The Ethnic Conflict Research Digest. Reviews [Details] |
| O'Dochartaigh, N. (1998) Andrew J. Wilson: Irish America and the Ulster Conflict. H-Ethnic. Reviews [Details] |
| O'Dochartaigh, N. (1998) Jeroen Doomernik: Going West: Soviet Jewish Immigrants in Berlin since 1990. The Ethnic Conflict Research Digest. Reviews [Details] |
| O'Dochartaigh, N. (1998) Michael A. Gomez: Exchanging our Country Marks: The Transformation of African Identities in The Colonial and Antebellum South. The Ethnic Conflict Research Digest. Reviews [Details] |
| O'Dochartaigh, N. (1998) Brian Dooley: Black and Green: The Fight for Civil Rights in Northern Ireland and Black America. Irl-Comment. Reviews [Details] |
| O'Dochartaigh, N. (2006) Colin Crawford, Inside the UDA: Volunteers and Violence . H-Albion, H-Net Reviews. Reviews [Details] |