Professor Ellis read History at Manchester University before working at the Institute of Irish Studies, Queen's University, Belfast. He joined the History Department in Galway in 1976. He became Head of Department in 2004, and was appointed to his present post in 2009.

Co-edited, with Raingard Eßer, Frontiers and the Writing of History, 1500-1850. Wehrhahn Verlag, Hannover-Laatzen, 2006, 315pp.

The making of the British Isles: the state of Britain and Ireland, 1450-1660. Pearson/Longman, London and New York, 2007, xxxvii + 411pp.

Co-edited, with Raingard Eßer, J.-F. Berdah and Miloš Xezník, Frontiers, regions and nations in Europe. Edizioni Plus – Pisa University Press, Pisa, 2009, xxii + 312 pp.

‘“Reducing their barbarous wildness … unto civility”: England and “the Celtic fringe”, 1415-1625’ in Brendan Smith (ed.), Ireland and the English world in the late middle ages (Basingstoke, 2009), pp 176-92.

‘Building the kingdom: Tudor integration and Ireland’ in Ronald G. Asch, Birgit Emich, and Jens-Ivo Engels (eds.) Integration, Legitimation, Korruption: Politische Patronage in Früher Neuzeit und Moderne, Frankfurt am Main, 2011), pp 49-60.

Co-edited, with Iakovos Michailidis, Regional and Transnational History in Europe. Edizioni Plus – Pisa University Press, Pisa, 2011, x + 332 pp.

Frontiers and regions in 15th and 16th century Britain and Ireland; Tudor state formation; the New British history

I would be interested in supervising doctoral students in any of these areas, and more generally on Irish and British history c.1400-1600.