Irish academic
Peter Gray (born 1965) is Professor of Modern Irish History at Queen's University Belfast. He specializes in the history of British-Irish relations in the 19th century, particularly the Great Irish Famine.
He is a member of the International Network of Irish Famine Studies,[1] and a member of the Irish Association of Professional Historians.[2] Gray was Head of the School of History and Anthropology and Professor of Modern Irish History at Queen's University Belfast from 2010 to 2015.[3] In 2015 Gray was an Eaton Visitor Fellow at the University of New Brunswick, researching the impact of the Great Famine on New Brunswick.[4]
Works
Professor Donald MacRaild of the University of Ulster called Famine, Land and Politics "by far the best book written on the Famine".[5]
Books
- The Irish Famine, “Abrams Discoveries” series (New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1995).
- British edition – The Irish Famine, ‘New Horizons’ series (London: Thames & Hudson, 1995)
- Trad. into French by Pascale Froment – L'Irlande au temps de la grande famine, collection « Découvertes Gallimard » (nº 265), série Histoire (Paris: Gallimard, 1995).
- Trad. into simplified Chinese by Shao Ming and Liu Yüning – Ai er lan da ji huang, "Fa xian zhi lü" series (vol. 81) (Shanghai: Shanghai People's Publishing House, 2005).
- Famine, Land and Politics: British Government and Irish Society, 1843-50 (Dublin, Irish Academic Press, 1999).
- The Irish Lord Lieutenancy: c. 1541-1922, Peter Gray and Olwen Purdue eds., (2012).
- The Memory of Catastrophe, with Kendrick Oliver (Manchester University Press, 2004).
- La Grande Famine en Irlande, 1845-1851. with Pauline Collombier-Lakeman (Paris: Editions Fahrenheit, 2015).
Articles
- "Punch and the Great Famine", History Ireland, Issue 2 (Summer 1993)
- "The Irish Poor Law and the Great Famine", Helsinki, 2006
References
- ^ "Members", International Network of Irish Famine Studies, Radboud University, Nijmegen
- ^ IAPH
- ^ University College Dublin Press
- ^ "Irish Historian Dr. Peter Gray visits UNB", University of New Brunswick, November 12, 2015
- ^ MacRaild, Donald. review of Famine, Land and Politics: British Government and Irish Society, 1843-50, Reviews in History, (review no. 173), February 2001
External links
- "Queen's University Academic Staff". Archived from the original on 12 September 2007. Retrieved 3 November 2007.
- "The Irish Potato Famine", BBC, iWonder
- Modern Ireland Podcasts, The Historical Association
