2009 - Elected to Membership of the Royal Irish Academy

Awarded European Research Council Advanced Investigator Grant

2007 Keynote speaker, 2nd Sound Economic History Workshop, Lund, 23 November.

Keynote speaker, 27th Meeting of the Portuguese Association of Economic and Social History, Lisbon, 16 November.

IRCHSS Government of Ireland Senior Research Fellowship,

2003 IRCHSS Government of Ireland Senior Research Fellowship, 1999 Association of American Publishers/PSP Award for best new scholarly book in Economics, 1999 (for Globalization and History).

1998 Cole Prize Winner, 1997-98: awarded annually to author of best article published in the Journal of Economic History (for “The European grain invasion, 1870-1913”).

1994 Joint winner, International Economic History Congress dissertation

competition, Milan.

Barrington Prize Lecturer, Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland.

President's Research Award, University College Dublin.

1988 Alfred P. Sloan Dissertation Fellowship, 1988-89.

Jens Aubrey Westengaard Scholarship, 1988.

1984 Whately Prize in Economics, TCD.

Annual Silver Medal for Composition, Dublin University Theological Society.

1982 Foundation Scholarship, Economics and Mathematics, TCD.

1980 Entrance Exhibition, First Class, Ancient and Modern Literature, TCD.