Philip Stephens

Award-winning journalist Philip Stephens looks at the turbulent history of Anglo-Irish relations and at how Ireland might use its history to inform its future.

Stephens cuts through the grievance and prejudice to tell the story from both sides of the Irish Sea. He explores the relationship through the stories of big leaders such as David Lloyd George, Michael Collins, Winston Churchill and Eamon de Valera and through the millions of emigrants who crossed to Britain to start new lives. Stephens focuses on the period following the Anglo-Irish treaty and on the unfinished business of partition.

Stephens is British and Irish and a contributing editor at the Financial Times and former chief political commentator. He is a winner of the David Watt Prize for Outstanding Political Journalism and the Political Journalist of the Year award in the Press Awards. His previous books include Tony Blair: The Making of a World Leader and Britain Alone: The Path from Suez to Brexit.