Congratulations to Cormac O Grada who has been awarded 2010 Royal Irish Academy Gold Medal. This is the premier Irish academic award and in Cormac’s case it is richly deserved.
PS: I released this yesterday but then quickly withdrew it as I thought it was embargoed! But I think its OK to release the news now – just tell one person at a time!
13 replies on “Cormac O Grada awarded RIA Gold Medal”
Well done Cormac. Hugely well deserved.
Congratulations Cormac! Well deserved recognition for your huge national and international influence.
Congrats Prof O’Grada. Enjoyed your classes!
Brian P
In Open Access, Professor Ó Gráda is our number one downloaded author, with over 9000 downloads of more than 200 publications. Many available full-text here:
http://irserver.ucd.ie/dspace/items-by-author?author=O%CC%81+Gra%CC%81da%2C+Cormac
My favourite Irish Economic Historian agus nach rí-mhaith a bhí an gradam seo tuillte aige.
Fantastic news. Congratulations to Cormac also congratulations to the RIA for making such an excellent choice.
Hopefully he’ll be in a good mood correcting our midterms 😉 ! Congrats Cormac
Tuillte.
Molaim, Cormac
Comhghairdeachas Cormac. Great news!
Cormac
Congratulations it is well deserved.
Well done! Contributing to the knowledge of at least three centuries is quite some achievement.
I have to say, while O Grada is certainly impressive and recognition is well deserved, wouldn’t it be nice if such elegant and educational writing had a happier subject. Irish history seems to be an almost unbroken narrative of decline and emigration.
Bring on a future O Grada with similarly well written work who talks of “Irish recovery. 2011-2030”, and “The Irish Model – Sustainable Growth and Social Justice”. We might even dream of working papers with titles like “A Study of the impact of overseas Irish Industrial Investment 2020-2050”, with special chapters on the Irish Sovereign Wealth fund, investment in developing countries, and a comparative study on the success rates of Irish vs other OECD investments.
Allow me to congratulate O Grada while hoping that someday one of his students can match his style and erudition, but with happier content.