Mary E. Daly
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{{Infobox person
| birth_name = Mary Elizabeth Daly
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| nationality = Irish
| alma_mater = University College Dublin
| occupation = Historian
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{{short description|Irish historian and academic|bot=PearBOT 5}}
Mary Elizabeth Daly, {{Post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|sep=,|MRIA}} is an Irish historian and academic. She is Professor of Modern Irish History at University College Dublin. From 2014 to 2017, she served as the President of the Royal Irish Academy.
Academic career
Daly studied history and economics at University College Dublin (UCD), graduating in 1969 with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree. She remained at UCD to attain a Master of Arts (MA) degree in history, which she completed in 1971.{{cite web|title=Mary Daly|url=http://www.ucd.ie/research/people/history/professormarydaly/|website=UCD Dublin|accessdate=12 March 2018|archive-date=10 March 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180310201421/http://www.ucd.ie/research/people/history/professormarydaly/|url-status=live}} She undertook postgraduate studies at the University of Oxford, completing her Doctor of Philosophy (DPhil) degree in 1978.{{cite web |title=Mary Elizabeth Daly |url=https://www.ria.ie/mary-elizabeth-daly |website=Royal Irish Academy |accessdate=11 November 2018 |language=en |date=19 October 2015 |archive-date=11 November 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181111043945/https://www.ria.ie/mary-elizabeth-daly |url-status=live }} Her doctoral thesis was titled "Government Policy and the Depressed Areas in the Inter-War Years".{{cite web |last1=Daly |first1=M. E. |title=Government Policy and the Depressed Areas in the Inter-War Years. |url=https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.452915 |website=E-Thesis Online Service |publisher=The British Library Board |accessdate=11 November 2018 |date=1978}}
Since 1970, Daly has held teaching and research positions within University College Dublin. She was promoted to Professor of Modern Irish History in 2006.
Since 2008, Daly has been the deputy chair of Higher Education Authority. She has been a Commissioner of the Mother and Baby Homes Commission of Investigation since its establishment in 2015.{{cite web|title=Who we are?|url=http://www.mbhcoi.ie/MBH.nsf/page/Who%20we%20are-en|website=Mother and Baby Homes Commission of Investigation|accessdate=24 July 2017|archive-date=11 October 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171011102009/http://www.mbhcoi.ie/MBH.nsf/page/Who%20we%20are-en|url-status=live}} From 2014 to 2017, she served as the President of the Royal Irish Academy,{{cite web|title=Mary Daly|url=http://www.ucd.ie/research/people/history/professormarydaly/|website=University College Dublin|accessdate=24 July 2017|archive-date=12 October 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171012083306/http://www.ucd.ie/research/people/history/professormarydaly/|url-status=live}}{{cite web|title=Mary E. Daly honoured at Queen's University, Belfast|url=https://www.ria.ie/news/membership/mary-e-daly-honoured-queens-university-belfast|website=Royal Irish Academy|accessdate=24 July 2017|date=5 July 2017|archive-date=5 December 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171205083548/https://www.ria.ie/news/membership/mary-e-daly-honoured-queens-university-belfast|url-status=live}}{{cite web|title=Mary E. Daly|url=https://www.ria.ie/publications/author/mary-e-daly|website=Royal Irish Academy|accessdate=24 July 2017|archive-date=6 December 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171206062914/https://www.ria.ie/publications/author/mary-e-daly|url-status=live}} the first woman to hold this role.
Honours
In 1991, Daly was elected a Member of the Royal Irish Academy (MRIA). In May 2021 Daly was awarded the Academy Gold Medal in the Humanities.{{cite web |title=2020 Academy Gold Medals presented in virtual ceremony |url=https://www.ria.ie/news/grants-and-awards-gold-medals/2020-academy-gold-medals-presented-virtual-ceremony |website=Royal Irish Academy |language=en |date=12 May 2021 |access-date=13 May 2021 |archive-date=13 May 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210513093948/https://www.ria.ie/news/grants-and-awards-gold-medals/2020-academy-gold-medals-presented-virtual-ceremony |url-status=live }}
Selected works
- {{cite book |last1=Daly |first1=Mary E. |title=Dublin, the deposed capital: a social and economic history, 1860–1914 |date=1984 |publisher=Cork University Press |location=Cork |isbn=978-0902561274}}
- {{cite book |last1=Daly |first1=Mary E. |title=The famine in Ireland |date=1986 |publisher=Dundalgan Press |location=Dublin |isbn=978-0852211083}}
- {{cite book |last1=Daly |first1=Mary E. |title=Industrial Development and Irish National Identity, 1922–1939 |date=1992 |publisher=Syracuse University Press |location=Syracuse, NY |isbn=978-0815625612}}
- {{cite book |last1=Daly |first1=Mary E. |title=The Slow Failure: Population Decline and Independent Ireland, 1920–1973 |date=2006 |publisher=University of Wisconsin Press |location=Madison, WI |isbn=978-0299212902}}
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Category:20th-century Irish historians
Category:21st-century Irish historians
Category:Irish women non-fiction writers
Category:Irish women historians
Category:Academics of University College Dublin
Category:Presidents of the Royal Irish Academy
Category:21st-century Irish women writers
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