Mary E. Daly

Daly studied history and economics at University College Dublin (UCD), graduating in 1969 with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree. She remained at UCD to attain a Master of Arts (MA) degree in history, which she completed in 1971.^[1] She undertook postgraduate studies at the University of Oxford, completing her Doctor of Philosophy (DPhil) degree in 1978.^[2] Her doctoral thesis was titled "Government Policy and the Depressed Areas in the Inter-War Years".^[3]

Since 1970, Daly has held teaching and research positions within University College Dublin. She was promoted to Professor of Modern Irish History in 2006.^[1]

Since 2008, Daly has been the deputy chair of Higher Education Authority.^[1] She has been a Commissioner of the Mother and Baby Homes Commission of Investigation since its establishment in 2015.^[4] From 2014 to 2017, she served as the President of the Royal Irish Academy,^[5][6][7] the first woman to hold this role.^[2]

In 1991, Daly was elected a Member of the Royal Irish Academy (MRIA).^[5] In May 2021 Daly was awarded the Academy Gold Medal in the Humanities.^[8]

• Daly, Mary E. (1984). Dublin, the deposed capital: a social and economic history, 1860–1914. Cork: Cork University Press. ISBN 978-0902561274.
• Daly, Mary E. (1986). The famine in Ireland. Dublin: Dundalgan Press. ISBN 978-0852211083.
• Daly, Mary E. (1992). Industrial Development and Irish National Identity, 1922–1939. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press. ISBN 978-0815625612.
• Daly, Mary E. (2006). The Slow Failure: Population Decline and Independent Ireland, 1920–1973. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press. ISBN 978-0299212902.