He is emeritus professor of history, and founding professor of the Department of History at University of Limerick. He joined the University in 2002 from the University of St. Andrews in Scotland and retired in 2020, latterly as Head of Department. His research has concentrated on political and social conflict during the Weimar Republic and early years of the Third Reich, and latterly on the Holocaust. He has just completed a monograph on the destruction of the Jewish Communities of the Eastern Aegean in 1944, titled: The Last Transport: The Holocaust in the Eastern Aegean which will be published by Bloomsbury Academic in autumn 2024. He is currently preparing a book reflecting more widely on approaches to the Holocaust titled: Stepping Stones to Genocide: The Nazi Holocaust. His recent principal publications are Rethinking the Weimar Republic: Authority and Authoritarianism, 1916-1936 (2014); The German Urban Experience 1900-1945: Modernity and Crisis (2001); Contested City: Municipal Politics and the Rise of Nazism in Altona 1917-1937 (Runner-up Fraenkel Prize in Contemporary History, 1997); editor, The Weimar Republic=Short Oxford History of Germany (2008).
He was elected Fellow of the Royal Historical Society in 1999 and a Member of the Royal Irish Academy in 2015.
McElligott, A. (1983). Street politics in Hamburg 1932/33. History Workshop Journal, 15, 83–90.
McElligott, A. (1983). Das Abruzzenviertel. Arbeiter in Altona 1918–1933. En Arbeiter in Hamburg. Unterschichten, Arbeiter und Arbeiterbewegung seit dem ausgehenden 18. Jahrhundert. Verlag Erziehung und Wissenschaft.
McElligott, A. (1984). Hier war doch alles nicht so schlimm. Wie die Nazis in Hamburg dem Alltag eroberten. VSA.
McElligott, A. (1984). ...und so kam es zu einer schweren Schlägerei. En Strassenschlachten in Altona und Hamburg am Ende der Weimarer Republik, en Hier war doch alles nicht so schlimm. VSA-Verlag.
McElligott, A. (1984). Altona vor dem ersten Weltkrieg. Zur wirtschaftlichen, gesellschaftlichen und politischen Entwicklung. En Das Andere Altona. Beiträge zur Alltagsgeschichte. Ergebnisse Verlag.
McElligott, A. (1985). Kommunalpolitische Entwicklungen in Altona vom Weimar zum Dritte Reich. En 'Ohne uns hätten sie das gar nicht machen können'. Nazi-Zeit und Nachkrieg in Altona und Ottensen. VSA-Verlag.
McElligott, A. (1987). Petty complaints, plunder and police in Altona 1917–1920. Towards an interpretation of community and conflict. En Transformationen der Arbeiterkultur. Jonas Verlag.
McElligott, A. (1987). Mobilising the unemployed: The KPD and the unemployed workers' movement in Hamburg-Altona during the Weimar Republic. En The German Unemployed: Experiences and Consequences of Mass Unemployment from the Weimar Republic to the Third Reich. Croom Helm.
McElligott, A. (1992). Workers' culture and workers' politics on Weimar's new housing estates: A response to Adelheid von Saldern. Social History, 17(1), 101–113.
McElligott, A. (1993). Crisis in the cities: The collapse of Weimar. History Today, 43(8), 7–14.
McElligott, A. (1994). Reforging Mitteleuropa in the Second World War. En Mitteleuropa: History and Prospects, 1815–1990. Edinburgh University Press.
McElligott, A. (1998). Contested city: Municipal politics and the rise of Nazism in Altona 1917–1937. University of Michigan Press.
McElligott, A. (1999). Dangerous communities and conservative authority: The judiciary, Nazis, and rough people, 1932–33. En Opposing Fascism. Community, Authority and Resistance in Europe. Cambridge University Press.
McElligott, A. (1999). Introduction: Community, authority and resistance. En Opposing Fascism. Community, Authority and Resistance in Europe. Cambridge University Press.
McElligott, A. (1999). Opposing fascism. Community, authority and resistance in Europe. Cambridge University Press.
McElligott, A. (1999). Walter Ruttmann's Berlin: Symphony of a City: Traffic-mindedness and the city in interwar Germany. En The City in Central Europe: Culture and Society since 1800. Ashgate.
McElligott, A. (2001). The German urban experience 1900–1945: Modernity and crisis. Routledge.
McElligott, A. (2003). Useful bodies: Humans in the service of medical science in the twentieth century. Johns Hopkins University Press.
McElligott, A. (2003). Editor’s introduction. En Working Towards the Führer. Essays in Honour of Sir Ian Kershaw. Manchester University Press.
McElligott, A. (2003). Sentencing towards the Führer: The judiciary in the Third Reich. En Working Towards the Führer. Essays in Honour of Sir Ian Kershaw. Manchester University Press.
McElligott, A. (2008). The quest for authority: The political culture of the Weimar Republic. En The Weimar Republic. Oxford University Press.
McElligott, A. (2009). Weimar Germany. Oxford University Press.
McElligott, A. (2012). Introduction. Irish Historical Studies, 38(149), 1–4.
McElligott, A., & Breathnach, C. (2012). Introduction: Power, the state and institutions in Ireland. Irish Historical Studies, 38(149), 1–5.
McElligott, A. (2013). Rethinking the Weimar Republic: Authority and authoritarianism, 1916–1936. Bloomsbury Academic.
McElligott, A., & Herf, J. (Eds.). (2017). Antisemitism before and since the Holocaust: Altered contexts and recent perspectives. Springer International Publishing.
McElligott, A., & Herf, J. (2017). Antisemitism before and since the Holocaust: Altered contexts and recent perspectives. En Antisemitism before and since the Holocaust: Altered contexts and recent perspectives (pp. 1–19). Springer International Publishing.
McElligott, A. (2017). Servants of the state, agents of the party, representatives of the people: The German mayoralty in the twentieth century. En Heads of the Local State: Mayors, Provosts and Burgomasters since 1800 (pp. 131–156). Taylor and Francis.
McElligott, A. (2018). The deportation of the Jews of Rhodes, 1944: An integrated history. En The Holocaust in Greece (pp. 58–86). Cambridge University Press.
McElligott, A. (2024). Reflections on the Juderia: Remembering, memory-making, and history in the “lost world” of Jewish Rhodes. En Italian Fascism in Rhodes and the Dodecanese Islands, 1922–44 (pp. 122–137). Taylor and Francis.
McElligott, A. (2024). The last transport: The Holocaust in the Eastern Aegean. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc.