Peter Gray (historian)

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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[]

References[]

  1. ^ "Members", International Network of Irish Famine Studies, Radboud University, Nijmegen
  2. ^ IAPH
  3. ^ University College Dublin Press
  4. ^ "Irish Historian Dr. Peter Gray visits UNB", University of New Brunswick, November 12, 2015
  5. ^ 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 2007-09-12. Retrieved 2007-11-03.
  • "The Irish Potato Famine", BBC, iWonder
  • Modern Ireland Podcasts, The Historical Association


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