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Professor Peter Gray
School Of History, Anthropology, Philosophy And PoliticsProfessor Gray’s research is in the history of British-Irish relations c.1800–70, especially the political history of the Great Famine 1845–50, the politics of poverty and land and British governance in Ireland.
He is researching the Ulster radical William Sharman Crawford. He has wider interests in the history of nineteenth-century political economy and social thought, in comparative imperial and famine history (especially Ireland and India), in historical memory and commemoration, and the history of 20th-century Northern Ireland.
Research Interests
Open to PhD applications in the field of
- Nineteenth-century Irish history
- Comparative famine history
- Pre-Troubles history of Northern Ireland
Public outreach & key achievements
Research students
| PhD Title | Poverty, poor relief and public health in Belfast c.1800-1851 |
| Country | Northern Ireland |
| PhD Title | A nineteenth-century Irish coroner: William Charles Waddell (1846-76) |
| Country | USA |
| PhD Title | Power, profit, plantocracy and the 2nd Earl Belmore |
| Country | Northern Ireland |
| PhD Title | Soldiers, politics and Empire: Ireland, Egypt and the Sudan, 1882-1900 |
| Country | Ireland |
| PhD Title | Emyr Estyn Evans and the cultural identity of Ulster, c.1929-1969 |
| Country | Northern Ireland |
| PhD Title | Education, famine, and conversion: Evangelical missions’ strategies and accusations of Souperism in Catholic Ireland, 1800-1869 |
| Country | France |
Alumni: Where are they now
| PhD Title | The churches and emigration from nineteenth-century Ireland |
| Country | Ireland |
| Current Position | Lecturer in History, University of Manchester |
| PhD Title | Jewish identity and community in Belfast, 1920-48 |
| Country | Northern Ireland |
| Current Position | Outreach Officer, Imperial War Museum, London |
| PhD Title | The Newfoundland-Irish in industrial Cape Breton, 1880-1920 |
| Country | Canada |
| Current Position | Institutional Historian, Episcopal Corporation of Antigonish, Nova Scotia, Canada |