Cormac Ó Gráda

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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.{{cite web|title=Cormac Ó Gráda|url=http://www.ucd.ie/research/people/economics/professorcormacograda/|website=University College Dublin|access-date=27 January 2018|archive-date=28 March 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100328065917/http://www.ucd.ie/research/people/economics/professorcormacograda/|url-status=dead}}

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".{{cite news|last1=Liese|first1=Debra|title=A Q&A with Cormac Ó Gráda, author of Eating People is Wrong|url=http://blog.press.princeton.edu/2015/05/12/a-qa-with-cormac-o-grada-author-of-eating-people-is-wrong/|access-date=27 January 2018|work=Princeton University Press Blog|publisher=Princeton University Press|date=12 May 2015|archive-date=12 March 2016|archive-url=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/|url-status=dead}} 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".

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. He has served on the editorial boards of Journal of Economic History, Explorations in Economic History, and the Agricultural History Review,{{cite journal|last1=de Bromhead|first1=Alan|title=An Interview with Cormac Ó Gráda|journal=The Newsletter of the Cliometric Society|date=Winter 2017|volume=31|issue=2|pages=20–23|url=http://cliometrics.org/newsletters/Volume-31/Volume-31-Number-2-Winter-2017.pdf|access-date=2018-01-27|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170724085657/http://www.cliometrics.org/newsletters/Volume-31/Volume-31-Number-2-Winter-2017.pdf|archive-date=2017-07-24|url-status=dead}} and is a former coeditor for the European Review of Economic History.{{cite web|title=Cormac Ó Gráda|url=https://voxeu.org/users/cormacograda0|website=VoxEU.org|publisher=Centre for Economic Policy Research|access-date=27 January 2018}} He is the President of the Economic History Association.{{cite web|title=About the Economic History Association|url=https://eh.net/eha/about/|website=Economic History Association|access-date=27 January 2018}}

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,{{cite web|title=Cormac Ó Gráda|url=https://www.ias.edu/scholars/cormac-%C3%B3-gr%C3%A1da|website=Institute for Advanced Study|access-date=27 January 2018}} 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.{{cite web|title=Cormac Ó Gráda|url=http://www.ae-info.org/ae/Member/%C3%93_Gr%C3%A1da_Cormac|website=Academia Europaea|access-date=27 January 2018}} In 2019, Trinity College Dublin awarded him with an honorary doctorate.{{Cite web|url=https://www.tcd.ie/registrar/honorary-degrees/2018-19/|title=Registrar : Trinity College Dublin, the University of Dublin, Ireland|website=www.tcd.ie|access-date=2020-01-06}}

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.[http://ideas.repec.org/e/pog2.html Cormac Ó Gráda page at RePEc] He has contributed to the "Irish Economy" blog, where he commented on the Irish financial crisis.[http://www.irisheconomy.ie/index.php/author/cograda/ "Irish Economy" website downloaded February 2010] Earlier in 2008, he gave an open verdict on the future of the Celtic Tiger economy that was about to wind down.[http://www.ucd.ie/economics/research/papers/2008/WP08.12.pdf "Éirvana" essay] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110615170433/http://www.ucd.ie/economics/research/papers/2008/WP08.12.pdf |date=15 June 2011 }}, April 2008

He was also interviewed in an In Our Time (BBC) discussion programme on the Great Irish Famine in April 2019.[https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0003rj1 Podcast link, April 2019]

=Books=

{{cite book|title=Ireland: A New Economic History, 1780-1939|date=1994|publisher= Oxford University Press|location=Oxford|isbn= 9780198205982 |url=https://archive.org/details/irelandneweconom00ogra|url-access=registration}}
{{cite book|title=A Rocky Road: The Irish Economy Since the 1920s|date=1997|publisher=Manchester University Press|location=Manchester|isbn= 9780719045844 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zVHgO4-nkhkC}}
{{cite book|title=Black '47 and Beyond: The Great Irish Famine in History, Economy, and Memory|date=1999|publisher=Princeton University Press|location=Princeton, NJ|isbn=978-0691070155|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sH-J4WxqknkC}}
{{cite book|title=Famine Demography: Evidence from the Past and the Present|date=2002|publisher=Oxford University Press| location= Oxford |isbn= 9780199251919 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UTCGZ-Z9OP4C}}
{{cite book|title=Jewish Ireland in the Age of Joyce: A Socioeconomic History|date=2006|publisher=Princeton University Press|location=Princeton, NJ|isbn=9780691127194|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8ezpCwAAQBAJ}}
{{cite book|title=Famine: A Short History|date=2009|publisher=Princeton University Press|location=Princeton, NJ| isbn= 9780691147970| url= https://books.google.com/books?id=guo9DwAAQBAJ}}
{{cite book|title=Eating People Is Wrong, and Other Essays on Famine, Its Past, and Its Future|date=2015|publisher=Princeton University Press|location=Princeton, NJ|isbn= 9781400865819 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FICSBQAAQBAJ}}

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).{{cite book|title=Jewish Ireland in the Age of Joyce: A Socioeconomic History by Cormac Ó Gráda|url=https://press.princeton.edu/titles/8284.html|publisher=Princeton University Press|date=5 November 2006|isbn=9780691127194|access-date=27 January 2018|last1=Gráda|first1=Cormac}}

=Journal articles =

{{cite journal|last1=Boyle|first1=Phelim P.|last2=Ó Gráda|first2=Cormac|title=Fertility Trends, Excess Mortality, and the Great Irish Famine|journal=Demography|date=November 1986|volume=23|issue=4|pages=543–562|doi=10.2307/2061350|pmid=3542599|jstor=2061350|hdl=10197/1404|s2cid=43621998|hdl-access=free}}, with
{{cite journal|last1=Allen|first1=Robert C.|author-link1=Bob Allen (economic historian)|last2=Ó Gráda |first2=Cormac|title=On the road again with Arthur Young: English, Irish, and French agriculture during the Industrial Revolution|journal=The Journal of Economic History|date=March 1988|volume=48|issue=1|pages=93–116|doi=10.1017/S0022050700004162|hdl=10197/1943|s2cid=154177835 |hdl-access=free}}
{{cite journal|last1=Kelly|first1=Morgan|author1-link=Morgan Kelly (economist)|last2=Ó Gráda |first2=Cormac|title=Market Contagion: Evidence from the Panics of 1854 and 1857|journal=American Economic Review|date=December 2000|volume=90|issue=5|pages=1110–1124|doi=10.1257/aer.90.5.1110|hdl=10197/459|s2cid=17705462 |hdl-access=free}}
{{cite journal|last=Ó Gráda |first=Cormac|title= Making Famine History|journal=Journal of Economic Literature|date=March 2007|volume=45|issue=1|pages=5–38|doi=10.1257/jel.45.1.5|hdl=10197/492|s2cid=54763671 |hdl-access=free}}