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

• "Punch and the Great Famine", History Ireland, Issue 2 (Summer 1993)
• "The Irish Poor Law and the Great Famine", Helsinki, 2006