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Steven Godfrey Ellis is emeritus professor of history at the National University of Ireland, Galway. His research focuses on Irish and British history in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. His recent publications include Defending English ground: war and peace in Meath and Northumberland, 1460–1542 (2015) and (with Christopher Maginn) The Tudor discovery of Ireland (2015).