Peter Gray (born 1965) is Professor of Modern Irish History at

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. He specializes in the history of British-Irish relations in the 19th century, particularly the

Great Irish Famine The Great Famine, also known as the Great Hunger ( ), the Famine and the Irish Potato Famine, was a period of mass starvation and disease in Ireland lasting from 1845 to 1852 that constituted a historical social crisis and had a major impact o ...

. He is a member of the International Network of Irish Famine Studies, and a member of the Irish Association of Professional Historians. Gray was Head of the School of History and Anthropology and Professor of Modern Irish History at

from 2010 to 2015. In 2015 Gray was an Eaton Visitor Fellow at the

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, researching the impact of the Great Famine on

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Works

Professor Donald MacRaild of the University of Ulster called ''Famine, Land and Politics'' "by far the best book written on the Famine".MacRaild, Donald. review of Famine, Land and Politics: British Government and Irish Society, 1843-50, Reviews in History, (review no. 173), February 2001
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Books

* ''The Irish Famine'', “

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” series (New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1995). ** British edition – ''The Irish Famine'', ‘

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’ series (London: Thames & Hudson, 1995) ** Trad. into French by Pascale Froment – ''L'Irlande au temps de la grande famine'', collection «

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» (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

External links

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"The Irish Potato Famine", BBC, iWonder

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