Professor Steven Ellis is Head of the History Department in NUI Galway. His best-known studies are "Ireland""in the Age of the Tudors"(London, 1998) and "Tudor Frontiers and Noble Power: the making of the British state" (Oxford, 1995). Christopher Maginn is Assistant Professor of History at Fordham University, NY.
Dr Christopher Maginn is Assistant Professor at Fordham University New York. He has recently authored Civilizing Gaelic Leinster: the extension of Tudor rule in the O Byrne and O Toole lordships (Four Courts Press, 2004).