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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2012 - Member of Academia Europaea
  • 2010 - Gold Medal, Royal Irish Academy Humanities
  • 1994 - Member of the Royal Irish Academy

Overview

Cormac Ó Gráda is affiliated with University College Dublin in Ireland and works primarily in the Social Sciences. Their research covers several related fields including Economics and Econometrics, Sociology and Political Science, Demography, General Health Professions, and History and Philosophy of Science.

The main topics of Ó Gráda's research include:

  • Historical Economic and Social Studies
  • Irish and British Studies
  • Global Health Care Issues
  • Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis
  • Birth, Development, and Health
  • Insurance, Mortality, Demography, Risk Management
  • Census and Population Estimation

Ó Gráda has contributed several recent papers, including:

  • The Mechanics of the Industrial Revolution, 2022, Journal of Political Economy
  • The Irish economy during the century after partition, 2021, The Economic History Review
  • Connecting the Scientific and Industrial Revolutions: The Role of Practical Mathematics, 2022, The Journal of Economic History
  • Population and Poverty in Ireland on the Eve of the Great Famine, 2022, Demography
  • On the Structure of Wealth-Holding in Pre-Famine Ireland, 2021, Irish Economic and Social History

Frequent co-authors in Ó Gráda's work consist of Morgan Kelly, Tyler Anbinder, Simone A. Wegge, Neil Cummins, and Joel Mokyr.

Ó Gráda publishes regularly in renowned academic venues, with multiple publications in The Journal of Economic History, The Journal of Interdisciplinary History, Harvard Dataverse, Journal of Political Economy, and The Economic History Review.

In addition to articles, Ó Gráda has authored books, including Famine, published by Princeton University Press in 2021.

The academic career of Ó Gráda includes several honors such as being a Member of Academia Europaea since 2012, receiving the Gold Medal from the Royal Irish Academy in 2010 for Humanities, and membership of the Royal Irish Academy since 1994.

Best Publications

  • Ireland: A New Economic History, 1780-1939

    Cormac Ó Gráda

  • Market contagion : evidence from the panics of 1854 and 1857

    Morgan Kelly;Cormac O Grada

  • The great Irish famine

    Cormac Ó Gráda

  • Black '47 and Beyond: The Great Irish Famine in History, Economy, and Memory

    Cormac Ó Gráda

  • A rocky road : the Irish economy since the 1920s

    Cormac Ó Gráda

  • Ireland Before and After the Famine: Explorations in Economic History, 1800-1925

    Cormac Ó Gráda

  • Making Famine History

    Cormac Ó Gráda

  • Famine: A Short History

    Cormac Ó Gráda

  • Precocious Albion: A New Interpretation of the British Industrial Revolution

    Morgan Kelly;Joel Mokyr;Cormac Ó Gráda

  • Fertility trends, excess mortality, and the Great Irish Famine

    Phelim P. Boyle;Cormac Ó Gráda

  • Eighteenth-Century Irish Population: New Perspectives from Old Sources

    Stuart Daultrey;David Dickson;Cormac Ó Gráda

  • Irish economic growth, 1945-1988

    Cormac Ó Gráda;Kevin H. O'Rourke

  • What do people die of during famines: the Great Irish Famine in comparative perspective

    Joel Mokyr;Cormac Ó Gráda

  • Migration as disaster relief : lessons from the Great Irish Famine

    Cormac Ó Gráda;Kevin H. O'Rourke

  • The Panics of 1854 and 1857: A View from the Emigrant Industrial Savings Bank

    Cormac Ó Gráda;Eugene N. White

  • Height and health in the United Kingdom 1815–1860 : evidence from the East India company army

    Joel Mokyr;Cormac Ó Gráda

  • On the road again with Arthur Young : English, Irish, and French agriculture during the Industrial Revolution

    Robert C. Allen;Cormac Ó Gráda

  • Protection, economic war and structural change : the 1930s in Ireland

    J. Peter Neary;Cormac Ó Gráda

  • Poor and getting poorer? Living standards in Ireland before the Famine

    Joel Mokyr;Cormac Ó Gráda

  • Famine in European history

    Guido Alfani;Cormac Ó. Gráda

  • Living standards and plague in London, 1560–1665†

    Neil Cummins;Morgan Kelly;Cormac Ó Gráda

  • Ireland's Great Famine: Interdisciplinary Perspectives

    Cormac Ó Gráda;Andrés Eiríksson

  • Appendix to "Precocious Albion: a New Interpretation of the British Industrial Revolution"

    Morgan Kelly;Joel Mokyr;Cormac Ó Gráda

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