Cormac Ó Gráda Explained

Cormac Ó Gráda
Nationality:Irish
Occupation:Economic historian
Known For:Economic history of the Irish famine
Alma Mater:University College Dublin
Columbia University

Cormac Ó Gráda (born 1945) is an Irish economic historian and professor emeritus of economics at University College Dublin. His research has focused on the economic history of Ireland, Irish demographic changes, the Great Irish Famine (as well as other famines), and the history of the Jews in Ireland.[1]

Life and career

After getting his undergraduate degree at the University College Dublin, Ó Gráda got his Ph.D. in economics from Columbia University in 1973, where he wrote his dissertation on the Irish economy before and after the Great Famine. He described his early academic career as being "a kind of jack-of-all-trades economic historian of Ireland".[2] He credits fellow economist Joel Mokyr, whom he met in 1977 through Michael Edelstein, his graduate thesis advisor at Columbia, as the "greatest influence" his academic work. Mokyr also sharpened his interest in the Great Irish Famine, which "led eventually to the study of famines elsewhere".[2]

He is a member of the Cliometric Society, the Economic History Society, the European Historical Economics Society, the Irish Economic and Social History Society, and the Royal Irish Academy.[1] He has served on the editorial boards of Journal of Economic History, Explorations in Economic History, and the Agricultural History Review,[3] and is a former coeditor for the European Review of Economic History.[4] He is the President of the Economic History Association.[5]

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,[6] 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

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

See also

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Cormac Ó Gráda. University College Dublin. 27 January 2018. 28 March 2010. https://web.archive.org/web/20100328065917/http://www.ucd.ie/research/people/economics/professorcormacograda/. dead.
  2. News: Liese. Debra. A Q&A with Cormac Ó Gráda, author of Eating People is Wrong. 27 January 2018. Princeton University Press Blog. Princeton University Press. 12 May 2015. 12 March 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20160312214618/http://blog.press.princeton.edu/2015/05/12/a-qa-with-cormac-o-grada-author-of-eating-people-is-wrong/. dead.
  3. de Bromhead. Alan. An Interview with Cormac Ó Gráda. The Newsletter of the Cliometric Society. Winter 2017. 31. 2. 20–23. 2018-01-27. https://web.archive.org/web/20170724085657/http://www.cliometrics.org/newsletters/Volume-31/Volume-31-Number-2-Winter-2017.pdf. 2017-07-24. dead.
  4. Web site: Cormac Ó Gráda. VoxEU.org. Centre for Economic Policy Research. 27 January 2018.
  5. Web site: About the Economic History Association. Economic History Association. 27 January 2018.
  6. Web site: Cormac Ó Gráda. Institute for Advanced Study. 27 January 2018.
  7. Web site: Cormac Ó Gráda. Academia Europaea. 27 January 2018.
  8. Web site: Registrar : Trinity College Dublin, the University of Dublin, Ireland. www.tcd.ie. 2020-01-06.
  9. http://ideas.repec.org/e/pog2.html Cormac Ó Gráda page at RePEc
  10. http://www.irisheconomy.ie/index.php/author/cograda/ "Irish Economy" website downloaded February 2010
  11. http://www.ucd.ie/economics/research/papers/2008/WP08.12.pdf "Éirvana" essay
  12. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0003rj1 Podcast link, April 2019
  13. Book: Jewish Ireland in the Age of Joyce: A Socioeconomic History by Cormac Ó Gráda. Princeton University Press. 5 November 2006. 9780691127194. 27 January 2018. Gráda. Cormac.

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