Filipe Ribeiro de Meneses (born in 1969 in

Lisbon Lisbon (; pt, Lisboa ) is the capital and largest city of Portugal, with an estimated population of 544,851 within its administrative limits in an area of 100.05 km2. Grande Lisboa, Lisbon's urban area extends beyond the city's administr ...

) is a Portuguese historian, who has lived in

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since he was young. He is a professor in

Maynooth University The National University of Ireland, Maynooth (NUIM; ga, Ollscoil na hÉireann Mhá Nuad), commonly known as Maynooth University (MU), is a constituent university of the National University of Ireland in Maynooth, County Kildare, Ireland. It ...

, whose historiographical production is predominantly centered around the contemporary history of Portugal. He graduated with a B.A. in history and philosophy in 1992 and received his doctorate in 1997, both from

Trinity College Dublin , name_Latin = Collegium Sanctae et Individuae Trinitatis Reginae Elizabethae juxta Dublin , motto = ''Perpetuis futuris temporibus duraturam'' (Latin) , motto_lang = la , motto_English = It will last i ...

. His doctoral thesis dealt with the governments of the Sacred União and

Sidónio Pais Sidónio Bernardino Cardoso da Silva Pais (; 1 May 1872 – 14 December 1918) was a Portuguese politician, military officer, and diplomat, who served as the fourth president of the First Portuguese Republic in 1918. One of the most divis ...

. In 2017 he was elected a member of the

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Works

* (2001). Franco and the Spanish Civil War. Londres y Nueva York: Routledge. * (2004). Portugal 1914–1926. From the First World War to Military Dictatorship. Bristol: Hispanic, Portuguese and Latin American Monographs. * (2010). Salazar: A Political Biography. Nueva York: Enigma Books. * (2015). A Grande Guerra de Afonso Costa. Lisboa: Publicações Dom Quixote.

References

1969 births Living people Academics of Maynooth University Alumni of Trinity College Dublin 21st-century Irish historians Members of the Royal Irish Academy Portuguese emigrants to Ireland {{Portugal-historian-stub