Professor Cormac Ó Gráda, UCD and Irish Economic Historian gave this year's 8th Annual NERI Dónal Nevin Lecture. It was run as a Zoom webinar on Tuesdsay 23rd February, 2021.
The details were as follows:
Title: The Irish Economy After A Century
Presenter: Professor Cormac Ó Gráda, Irish Economic Historian & Professor of Economics at UCD
Date: Tuesday 23rd February, 2021
Time: 15:00 - 16:00
Platform: Zoom webinar
Bio for Professor Cormac Ó Gráda:
Professor Cormac Ó Gráda is an Irish economic historian and professor emeritus of economics at University College Dublin. He has written a lot about the economic history of Ireland, the Great Irish Famine, and the history of the Jews in Ireland. In recent years his research has focused more on the history of famines generally and on Britain before and during the Industrial Revolution.
Layout of Zoom webinar:
Professor Cormac Ó Gráda made his presentation for 50 minutes. Subsequently, questions were asked through the Zoom Q & A function where Dr Tom McDonnell, NERI Co-director presented the questions to Professor Ó Gráda.
Details of Lecture:
Economies are as entitled to their anniversaries as famines, wars, and cities. Here my focus will be on the achievements and failures of the Irish economy - or economies - since independence in 1920-1921, and what they meant for ordinary people. We will discuss the issue from two complementary perspectives. On the one hand, much of the Irish story has more in common with economic trends elsewhere than generally realised. So we can learn a great deal by, say, comparing trends in Ireland to those in the rest of western or north-western Europe, or by comparing developments in the south to those in our sister economy to the north. On the other hand, there are differences, some policy-induced and some the products of history, which make Ireland’s economic history since independence unique and interesting.
The presentation from the 8th Annual NERI Dónal Nevin Lecture is below. YouTube link to the Lecture is here