Cormac Ó Gráda is Professor of Economic History and History of Economic Analysis at the School of Economics – University College Dublin.
His studies and works are focused mainly on the subject of famine (Irish famine in the late 1840’s) and of fluctuations in the Irish population.
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 of the Royal Irish Academy. He is co-editor of the European Review of Economic History and in 2010 was awarded the Royal Irish Academy Gold Medal
His studies and works are focused mainly on the subject of famine (Irish famine in the late 1840’s) and of fluctuations in the Irish population.
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 of the Royal Irish Academy. He is co-editor of the European Review of Economic History and in 2010 was awarded the Royal Irish Academy Gold Medal
- Among his most relevant publications are:
▪ O’Grada, C.; (2009) Famine: A Short History. Princeton: Princeton University Press
▪ Ó Gráda, Cormac; (2006) Ireland’s Great Famine: Interdisciplinary Perspectives. Dublin: UCD Press
▪ O’Grada, C.; (2006) Jewish Ireland in the Age of Joyce: A Social Science History. Princeton: Princeton University Press
▪ Edited with (with Tim Dyson, London School of Economics); (2002) Famine Demography: Evidence from the Past and the Present. : Oxford University Press