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Professor Cormac O'Grada MA PhD Dip E Studies

Books:

O'Grada, C. (2009) Famine: A Short History. Princeton: Princeton University Press. [Details]

O'Grada, C. (2006) Jewish Ireland in the Age of Joyce: A Social Science History. Princeton: Princeton University Press. [Details]

Ó Gráda, Cormac (2006) Ireland's Great Famine: Interdisciplinary Perspectives. Dublin: UCD Press. [Details]

Edited (with David Dickson, Trinity College Dublin), (2003) Refiguring Ireland: Essays on Social and Economic History in Honour of Louis M. Cullen. : *. [Details]

Edited with (with Tim Dyson, London School of Economics) (2002) Famine Demography: Evidence from the Past and the Present. : Oxford University Press. [Details]

O'Grada, C. (1999) Black '47 and Beyond: the Great Irish Famine in History, Economy and Memory. Princeton: Princeton University Press. [Details]

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Book Chapters:

Cormac Ó Gráda and Desmond McCabe (2010) '`Better off thrown behind a ditch': Enniskillen workhouse during the Irish Famine' In: Michael Denie and Sean Farrell (eds). Festschrift for James S. Donnelly. Dublin: Irish Academic Press. [Details]

Cormac Ó Gráda (2008) 'The Irish economy half a century ago' In: Michael Miley (eds). Growing Knowledge: 50 Years of Agriculture and Food Research. Dublin: Teagasc. [Details]

O'Grada, C. (2007) 'Ireland's Great Famine: an overview' In: O'Grada, C., (with Eric Vanhaute, University of Ghent and Richard Paping, University of Groningen) (eds). When the Potato Failed: Causes and Effects of the 'Last' European Subsistence Crisis. Brepols: CORN Publication Series - Turnhout. [Details]

O'Grada, C. (2007) ''Crisis, what crisis? Prices, harvest shortfalls, and excess mortality in mid-nineteenth century France'' In: O'Grada, C., (with Eric Vanhaute, University of Ghent and Richard Paping, University of Groningen) (eds). When the Potato Failed: Causes and Effects of the 'Last' European Subsistence Crisis. Brepols: CORN Publication Series - Turnhout. [Details]

O'Grada, C. (2007) ''The subsistence crisis of 1845-1850: a comparative perspective'' In: O'Grada, C. (with Eric Vanhaute, University of Ghent and Richard Paping, University of Groningen) (eds). When the Potato Failed: Causes and Effects of the 'Last' European Subsistence Crisis. Brepols: CORN Publication Series - Turnhout. [Details]

O'Grada, C. (2007) 'Introduction' In: Kathryn Edgerton-Tarpley (eds). Tears of Iron: the Great Northern China Famine of 1876-78. Berkeley: *. [Details]

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Books Edited:

Cormac Ó Gráda, UCD, Eric Vanhaute, University of Ghent and Richard Paping, University of Groningen (Ed.). (2007) When the Potato Failed: Causes and Effects of the 'Last' European Subsistence Crisis. Belgium: Brepols. [Details]

Cormac Ó Gráda and David Dickson (Ed.). (2003) Refiguring Ireland: Essays in Honour of L.M. Cullen. Dublin: Lilliput. [Details]

Cormac Ó Gráda and Jacqueline Hill (Ed.). (1993) The Visitation of God? The Potato and the Irish Famine: Selected Essays by Austin Bourke. Dublin: Lilliput. [Details]

Peer Reviewed Journals:

Cormac Ó Gráda (2009) 'Financial panic, famine, and contagion: Ireland in the 1840s and 1850s'. Irish Economic and Social History, 35 (1):21-36. [Details]

Cormac Ó Gráda (2008) 'The ripple that drowns? Twentieth century famines in China and India as economic history'. Economic History Review, 61 (S1):5-37. [Details]

Cormac Ó Gráda (2008) 'Economic status, religion, and demography in an Ulster town in the early twentieth century'. History of the Family: International Quarterly Journal, 13 (4):350-359. [Details]

O'Grada, C. (2007) 'Making famine history'. Journal of Economic Literature, XLV (1):5-38. [Details]

Chevet, J.-M. and Ó Gráda, C. (2006) 'Grain prices and mortality: a note on 'La Michodiére's Law''. European Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 13 (2):183-184. [Details]

O'Grada, C. (2006) 'Dublin Jewish Demography a Century Ago'. Economic and Social Review, 37 (2):123-147. [Details]

O'Grada, C. (with Tim Guinnane and Carolyn Moehling, Yale University). (2006) 'The fertility of the Irish in America in 1910', Explorations in Economic Hist'. Explorations in Economic History, 43 (3):465-485. [Details]
Ó Gráda, C. (2005) 'Markets and Famines in Pre-Industrial Europe'. Journal of Interdisciplinary History, 36 (2):143-166. [Details]
Guinnane, T.W.,Moehling, C. and Ó Gráda, C. (2005) 'The fertility of the Irish in America in 1910'. Explorations in Economic History, 43 (3):465-485. [Details]
O'Grada, C. (2004) ''Lost in Little Jerusalem: Leopold Bloom and Irish Jewry''. Journal of Modern Literature, 27 (4):17-26. [Details]
O'Grada, C. (Jean-Michel Chevet, INRA, Paris) (2004) ''Revisiting Subsistence Crises: The characteristics of demographic crises in France in the first half of the 19th century''. Food and History, 12 (2/3):165-195. [Details]
O'Grada, C. (2004) 'Guest editor's introduction to special 'Famine' issue'. Food and History, 12 (2/3/):69-80. [Details]
* (2003) 'Savings Banks as an Institutional Import: The Case of Nineteenth Century Ireland'. Financial History Review, 10 . [Details]
(with Eugene White, Rutgers University) (2003) 'The panics of 1854 and 1857: a view from the Emigration Industrial Savings Bank''. Journal of Economic History, 63 (1):213-240. [Details]
* (2002) 'Is the Celtic Tiger a Paper Tiger?'. Quarterly Economic Commentary, :51-62. [Details]
(with Jean-Michel Chevet, INRA, Paris), (2002) ''Market and famine in ancien régime France''. Journal of Economic History, 62 (3):706-733. [Details]
* (2002) 'The greatest benefit of all: the old age pension in Ireland'. Past and Present, 175 :124-162. [Details]
with Tim Guinnane, Yale University) (2002) 'Mortality in the North Dublin Union During the Great Famine'. Economic History Review, :487-506. [Details]
(with Tim Dyson, LSE), (2002) 'Demographic issues in famine analysis'. Ids Bulletin, . [Details]
(with Joel Mokyr, Northwestern University), (2002) 'What do people die of during famines? The Great Irish Famine in comparative perspective''. European Review of Economic History, :339-364. [Details]
(2001) 'Farming high and low 1850-1914''. Agricultural History Review, 49 (2):210-218. [Details]
(with Morgan Kelly, UCD) (2000) 'Market contagion: evidence from the panics of 1854 and 1857'. American Economic Review, 90 (5):1110-1120. [Details]
(with Patrick Honohan, World Bank) (1998) ''The Irish macroeconomic crisis of 1955-56: how much was due to monetary policy?'. Irish Economic and Social History, 24 :52-80. [Details]
* (1998) 'New perspectives on the Irish famine'. Bullan, (2):103-115. [Details]
(with Kevin O'Rourke, Trinity College Dublin) (1997) ''Mass migration as disaster relief: lessons from the Great Irish Famine''. European Review of Economic History, 1 (1):3-25. [Details]
* (1997) 'Markets and famines: a simple test with Indian data''. Economic Letters, 57 :241-244. [Details]
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Other Journals:

Cormac Ó Gráda (2009) 'Rough Justice' Dublin Review of Books 9 .

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Cormac Ó Gráda (2008) 'Éirvana' Dublin Review of Books .

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Ó Gráda, C. (2006) 'The New York Irish in the 1850s: locked in by poverty?' New York Irish History 19 (1) :5-3. [Details]

Settling In: Dublin's Jewish Immigrants of a Century Ago (2006) 'Settling In: Dublin's Jewish Immigrants of a Century Ago' Field Day Review 1 (1) :87-99. [Details]

Conference Publications:

O'Grada, C. (2002) 'Historical reflections on the Celtic Tiger' Wales Famine Forum - University of Cardiff The Green Dragon: A Magazine of the Irish in Wales, , pp.30-36 [Details]

Other Publications:

Cormac Ó Gráda (2008) The Early History of Irish Savings Banks. Working Paper

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Cormac Ó Gráda (2008) Economic Status, Religion, and Demography in an Ulster Town a Century Ago. Working Paper

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Cormac Ó Gráda (2008) Contribution to Review symposium on 'Best of Times? The Social Impact of the Celtic Tiger¿. Dublin: Review Articles [Details]

Cormac Ó Gráda (2007) Famine Demography. Working Paper

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Cormac Ó Gráda (2007) Famines and Markets. Working Paper

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Cormac Ó Gráda (2007) The Ripple that Drowns? Twentieth-Century Famines in China and India as Economic History. Working Paper

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O'Grada, C. (1997) A Rocky Road: The Irish Economy since Independence. Manchester: Manchester University Press. [Details]
Edited (1996) Famine 150: Commemorative Lecture Series. : *. [Details]
O'Grada, C., Eiríksson, A. (1996) Estate Records of the Irish Famine: A Second Guide to Famine Archives. Dublin: Irish Famine Network. [Details]
O'Grada, Cormac (1994) Ireland: A New Economic History 1780-1939. Oxford: Oxford University Press. [Details]
O'Grada, Cormac (1994) An Drochshaol: Béaloideas agus Amhráin (The Famine: Memory and Song). Dublin: Coiscéim. [Details]
Edited(with Jacqueline Hill, Maynooth College), (1993) The Visitation of God? The Potato and the Great Irish Famine [a collection of the works of Austin Burke] (Dublin: Lilliput, 1993). . : *. [Details]
O'Grada, Cormac (1989) The Great Irish Famine. London: Macmillan, and Dublin: Gill & Macmillan. [Details]
O'Grada, Cormac (1988) Ireland Before and After the Famine: Explorations in Economic History 1800-1930. Manchester: Manchester University Press. [Details]
O'Grada, Cormac (1985) Éire Roimh an nGorta: An Saol Eacnamaíoch (Ireland Before the Famine: Economic Life). Dublin: An Gúm. [Details]
Edited (0) The Economic Development of Ireland Since 1870. : *. [Details]
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O'Grada, C. (2007) 'You take the high road and I'll take the low road: economic success and wellbeing in the longer run'' In: T. Hatton, Alan Taylor, and K. O'Rourke (eds). The New Comparative Economic History. *: MIT Press. [Details]
Cormac Ó Gráda (2007) ''Notes on Cork Jewry a Century ago'' In: D. Keogh and D. Whelan (eds). Gerald Goldberg: A Tribute. Cork: Mercier. [Details]
O'Grada, C. (2007) 'Introduction' In: O'Grada, C., (with Eric Vanhaute, University of Ghent and Richard Paping, University of Groningen) (eds). When the Potato Failed: Causes and Effects of the 'Last' European Subsistence Crisis. Brepols: CORN Publication Series - Turnhout. [Details]
O'Grada, C. (2004) ''Irish agriculture after the Land War'' In: Stanley Engerman and Jacob Metzer (eds). Land Rights, Ethno-Nationality and Sovereignty in History. London: Routledge. [Details]
O'Grada, C. (2004) ''Infant and child mortality in south Dublin a century ago'' In: Marco Breschi and Lucia Pozzi (eds). The Determinants of Infant and Child Mortality in Past European Populations. Udine: Forum. [Details]
O'Grada, C. (2003) ''Moral hazard and quasi-central banking: should the Munster Bank have been allowed to fail?'' In: Refiguring Ireland. : . [Details]
O'Grada, C. (2003) ''Irish Famine'' In: Mokyr (eds). Oxford Encyclopedia of Economic History. New York: *. [Details]
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Cormac Ó Gráda (2007) Yardsticks for Workhouses during the Great Famine. Working Paper [Details]
Cormac Ó Gráda (2004) 'Ireland's Great Famine'. Electronic Publication [Details]
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