Cormak O'Grada to speak on ' Irish Famine and Mass Migration: Lesson for Today '

On November 26 Cormak O'Grada will speak on 'Irish Famine and mass migration: lesson for today'. The event is organised by HSE Institute of Demography.

Cormak O'Grada 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.

He is a member of the Cliometrics 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, and is a former coeditor for the European Review of Economic History. He is the President of the Economic History Association. In 2010, he won a Gold Medal from the Royal Irish Academy, 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.

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.

Books:

• Ireland: A New Economic History, 1780-1939. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 1994.
• A Rocky Road: The Irish Economy Since the 1920s. Manchester: Manchester University Press. 1997.
• Black '47 and Beyond: The Great Irish Famine in History, Economy, and Memory. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. 1999.
• Famine Demography: Evidence from the Past and the Present. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2002.
• Jewish Ireland in the Age of Joyce: A Socioeconomic History. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. 2006.
• Famine: A Short History. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. 2009.
• Eating People Is Wrong, and Other Essays on Famine, Its Past, and Its Future. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. 2015.

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)

Start time: 15-30

Adress: 20 Myasnitskaya ulitsa, room 101

If you plan to attend the event, please register here before 12.00, November 23.