Cormac Ó Gráda
Cormac Ó Gráda | |
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| Born | 1945 (age 78–79) |
| Nationality | Irish |
| Alma mater | Economic historian |
| Known for | Economic history of the Irish famine |
Cormac Ó Gráda (born 1945) is an Irish
Life and career
After getting his undergraduate degree at the
He is a member of the
In fall 2007, he was a member at Princeton's Institute for Advanced Study as a member of the School of Historical Studies. In 2010, he won a Gold Medal from the Royal Irish Academy,[3] of which he has been a member since 1994. He has been a visiting professor to a number of universities around the world, including the University of British Columbia, New York University, Carleton College, the University of Copenhagen, and Princeton University.[7] In 2019, Trinity College Dublin awarded him with an honorary doctorate.[8]
Publications
Ó Gráda is a prolific writer. He has written and published seven books in addition to numerous journal articles and collaborations, with over 100 academic papers available online.[9] He has contributed to the "Irish Economy" blog, where he commented on the Irish financial crisis.[10] Earlier in 2008, he gave an open verdict on the future of the Celtic Tiger economy that was about to wind down.[11]
He was also interviewed in an In Our Time (BBC) discussion programme on the Great Irish Famine in April 2019.[12]
Books
- Ireland: A New Economic History, 1780-1939. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 1994. ISBN 9780198205982.
- A Rocky Road: The Irish Economy Since the 1920s. Manchester: Manchester University Press. 1997. ISBN 9780719045844.
- Black '47 and Beyond: The Great Irish Famine in History, Economy, and Memory. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. 1999. ISBN 978-0691070155.
- Famine Demography: Evidence from the Past and the Present. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2002. ISBN 9780199251919.
- Jewish Ireland in the Age of Joyce: A Socioeconomic History. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. 2006. ISBN 9780691127194.
- Famine: A Short History. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. 2009. ISBN 9780691147970.
- Eating People Is Wrong, and Other Essays on Famine, Its Past, and Its Future. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. 2015. ISBN 9781400865819.
The American Conference for Irish Studies awarded the James S. Donnelly, Sr. Prize to two of his books, Black '47 and Beyond (1999) and Jewish Ireland in the Age of Joyce (2006).[13]
Journal articles
- Boyle, Phelim P.; Ó Gráda, Cormac (November 1986). "Fertility Trends, Excess Mortality, and the Great Irish Famine". Demography. 23 (4): 543–562. S2CID 43621998., with
- S2CID 154177835.
- S2CID 17705462.
- Ó Gráda, Cormac (March 2007). "Making Famine History". S2CID 54763671.
See also
Notes
- ^ a b c d de Bromhead, Alan (Winter 2017). "An Interview with Cormac Ó Gráda" (PDF). The Newsletter of the Cliometric Society. 31 (2): 20–23. Archived from the original (PDF) on 24 July 2017. Retrieved 27 January 2018.
- ^ a b "Cormac Ó Gráda". University College Dublin. Archived from the original on 28 March 2010. Retrieved 27 January 2018.
- ^ a b "Cormac Ó Gráda". Institute for Advanced Study. Retrieved 27 January 2018.
- ^ a b Liese, Debra (12 May 2015). "A Q&A with Cormac Ó Gráda, author of Eating People is Wrong". Princeton University Press Blog. Princeton University Press. Archived from the original on 12 March 2016. Retrieved 27 January 2018.
- ^ "Cormac Ó Gráda". VoxEU.org. Centre for Economic Policy Research. Retrieved 27 January 2018.
- ^ "About the Economic History Association". Economic History Association. Retrieved 27 January 2018.
- ^ "Cormac Ó Gráda". Academia Europaea. Retrieved 27 January 2018.
- ^ "Registrar : Trinity College Dublin, the University of Dublin, Ireland". www.tcd.ie. Retrieved 6 January 2020.
- ^ Cormac Ó Gráda page at RePEc
- ^ "Irish Economy" website downloaded February 2010
- ^ "Éirvana" essay Archived 15 June 2011 at the Wayback Machine, April 2008
- ^ Podcast link, April 2019
- ISBN 9780691127194. Retrieved 27 January 2018.
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