Annual Geary Lecture - Reflections on famine: Gaza and beyond

Cormac Ó Gráda, Professor of Economics at University College Dublin, will deliver a talk at the ESRI titled "Reflections on famine: Gaza and beyond" as part of our Geary Lecture series. 

The Geary Lecture is organised each year to honour Dr R. C. Geary (1896 –1983), the first Director of the ESRI. Lectures have been given by some of the world’s foremost economics, statistics and sociology scholars, including several Nobel Prize winners. 

Cormac Ó Gráda is an emeritus professor of economics at University College Dublin. His current research focuses on child labour in nineteenth-century Italy and Britain, the Irish in England, and the economic history of famine. He is also finishing a history of the industrial revolution with co-authors Morgan Kelly and Nobel Prize winner Joel Mokyr. Over 100 of his academic papers are available online.  His books include Ireland: A New Economic History (Oxford 1994); Black ’47 and Beyond (Princeton, 1999); Jewish Ireland in the Age of Joyce: A Socioeconomic History (Princeton, 2006); Famine: A Short History (Princeton, 2009); and The Hidden Victims: Civilian Casualties of the Two World Wars (Princeton, 2024). He was president of the (American) Economic History Association in 2017-18. He was awarded the Royal Irish Academy’s Gold Medal in Humanities in 2010 in recognition of his outstanding work in humanities, and an honorary doctorate by Trinity College Dublin in 2018. 

More information about the annual lecture series is available here.