Biography

Ged Martin studied at Cambridge, where he took First Class Honours in History in 1967, and completed his PhD in 1972. He was President of the Cambridge Union Society in 1968, and a Research Fellow of Magdalene College, 1970-72. He spent the next five years as a Research Fellow in History at the Australian National University in Canberra, and in 1977 was appointed to a lectureship at University College Cork.
Director of the Centre of Canadian Studies at the University of Edinburgh from 1983, Ged Martin became a Reader in History in 1994, and in 1996 received the United Kingdom's first permanent Chair in Canadian Studies. He also served from 1993 to 1997 as Deputy Director of the University's International Social Sciences Institute. Since 2001 he has lived in Ireland.

Ged Martin is an Emeritus Professor of the University of Edinburgh. He is also an honorary Adjunct Professor of History at the University of the Fraser Valley, British Columbia. From 2008 until 2017, he was Adjunct Professor of History at the National University of Ireland, Galway.

In 2011, Ged Martin was elected to an Honorary Fellowship at Hughes Hall, a graduate College of the University of Cambridge.

Ged Martin has published widely in the history of leading Commonwealth countries, and of Britain and Ireland since the late eighteenth century.

Contact address:
Professor Ged Martin
Shanacoole
via Youghal County Cork P36 XP82
Republic of Ireland

Offices held and distinctions achieved by Ged Martin include:

1982 Ontario Historical Society, Riddell Prize

1982 Vice-President, Association of Canadian Studies in Ireland

1984 William Evans Visiting Fellow, University of Otago

1986-90 Founding editor, British Journal of Canadian Studies

1988-89 Founding co-editor, British Review of New Zealand Studies

1989 "Noted Scholar", Summer Session, University of British Columbia

1990-92 President, British Association for Canadian Studies

1990 International Council for Canadian Studies Five Continents Award in Canadian Studies

1991 Parnell Centenary Lecturer, Magdalene College, Cambridge

1991 Winthrop Pickard Bell Lecturer, Mount Allison University, New Brunswick

1991-2001 Member, Canada Memorial Scholarship Selection Panel

1992 Prix du Québec for the United Kingdom

1994 Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (retired 2013)

1996 Joanne Goodman Memorial Lecturer, University of Western Ontario

2000 Plenary speaker, British Association for Canadian Studies Conference, Edinburgh

2000 Keynote speaker, Yorkshire Settlers Conference, Sackville, New Brunswick

2001 US lecture tour for World Affairs Council of Greater Cincinnati

2003 Plenary speaker, Association for Canadian Studies Conference "Presence of the Past" (Halifax, Nova Scotia)

2004 Standard Life Visiting Fellow in Canadian Studies, University of Edinburgh

2004 Plenary speaker, British Australian Studies Association Conference, Cardiff

2005 Plenary speaker, joint conference of British Association for Canadian Studies and New Zealand Studies Association, Canterbury, Kent

2006 International Council for Canadian Studies, Pierre Savard Prize for
Past Futures: The Impossible Necessity of History

2009 Member of the Review Team, Department of History and Classics,
University of Alberta

2009 Public Lecture, "Canada and the Gallows", University of the Fraser Valley,
Abbotsford British Columbia

2010 Commemorative speaker, Sir John A. Macdonald Annual Commemoration,
Cataraqui Cemetery, Kingston, Ontario

2010 Commemorative Lecture, Hughes Hall, Cambridge
to mark the College's 125th anniversary

2011 Public Lecture on Charles Stewart Parnell, Magdalene College, Cambridge

2012 Ontario Historical Society, J.J. Talman Award 2011 for
"the best book on Ontario's social, economic, political or cultural history"
(for Favourite Son? John A. Macdonald and the Voters of Kingston, 1841-1891)

2014 Plenary speaker, Canadian Studies Network Conference,
Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island

                    2014 W. Stewart MacNutt Memorial Lecture, University of New Brunswick  

      2018  Plenary speaker, Association of Canadian Studies in Ireland,
                                             Biennial Conference, Waterford, Ireland