BRIAN M. WALKER is Professor Emeritus of Irish Studies at Queen’s University Belfast. He has served as Director of the Institute of Irish Studies at Queen’s, Chairman of the Arts Council of Norther...view moreBRIAN M. WALKER is Professor Emeritus of Irish Studies at Queen’s University Belfast. He has served as Director of the Institute of Irish Studies at Queen’s, Chairman of the Arts Council of Northern Ireland, and President of the Linen Hall Library, Belfast. He has written many books on Irish history, including Dancing to History’s Tune: History, Myth and Politics in Ireland (1996) and A Political History of the Two Irelands: From Partition to Peace (2012).view less