Cormac Ó Gráda

Cormac Ó Gráda
Born 1945 (age 72–73)
Nationality Irish
Alma mater University College Dublin,
Columbia University[1]
Occupation Economic historian
Known for Economic history of the Irish famine

Cormac Ó Gráda or Cormac O'Grada (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.[2]

Life and career

After earning his undergraduate degree at the University College Dublin, Ó Gráda earned his Ph.D. in economics from Columbia University in 1973,[3] where he wrote his dissertation on the Irish economy before and after the Great Famine.[1] He described his early academic career as being "a kind of jack-of-all-trades economic historian of Ireland".[4] 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.[1] Mokyr also sharpened his interest in the Great Irish Famine, which "led eventually to the study of famines elsewhere".[4]

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.[2] He has served on the editorial boards of Journal of Economic History, Explorations in Economic History, and the Agricultural History Review,[1] and is a former coeditor for the European Review of Economic History.[5] He is the President of the Economic History Association.[6]

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, the University of Copenhagen, and Princeton University.[7]

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.[8] He has contributed to the "Irish Economy" blog, where he commented on the Irish financial crisis.[9] Earlier in 2008 he gave an open verdict on the future of the Celtic Tiger economy that was about to wind down.[10]

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).[11]

Journal articles

  • Cormac Ó Gráda and Phelim P. Boyle (November 1986). "Fertility Trends, Excess Mortality, and the Great Irish Famine". Demography. 23 (4): 543–562. doi:10.2307/2061350. , with
  • –– and Robert C. Allen (March 1988). "On the road again with Arthur Young: English, Irish, and French agriculture during the Industrial Revolution". The Journal of Economic History. 48 (1): 93–116. doi:10.1017/S0022050700004162.
  • –– and Morgan Kelly (December 2000). "Market Contagion: Evidence from the Panics of 1854 and 1857". American Economic Review. 90 (5): 1110–1124. doi:10.1257/aer.90.5.1110.
  • –– (March 2007). "Making Famine History". Journal of Economic Literature. 45 (1): 5–38. doi:10.1257/jel.45.1.5.

See also

Notes

  1. 1 2 3 4 de Bromhead, Alan (Winter 2017). "An Interview with Cormac Ó Gráda" (PDF). The Newsletter of the Cliometric Society. 31 (2): 20–23.
  2. 1 2 "Cormac O'Grada". University College Dublin. Retrieved 27 January 2018.
  3. 1 2 "Cormac Ó Gráda". Institute for Advanced Study. Retrieved 27 January 2018.
  4. 1 2 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. Retrieved 27 January 2018.
  5. ↑ "Cormac Ó Gráda". VoxEU.org. Centre for Economic Policy Research. Retrieved 27 January 2018.
  6. ↑ "About the Economic History Association". Economic History Association. Retrieved 27 January 2018.
  7. ↑ "Cormac Ó Gráda". Academia Europaea. Retrieved 27 January 2018.
  8. ↑ Cormac Ó Gráda page at RePEc
  9. ↑ "Irish Economy" website downloaded February 2010
  10. ↑ "Éirvana" essay, April 2008
  11. ↑ "Jewish Ireland in the Age of Joyce: A Socioeconomic History by Cormac Ó Gráda". Princeton University Press. Retrieved 27 January 2018.
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