Filipe Ribeiro de Meneses is a Professor of History at Maynooth University, in Ireland. He has also lectured at Trinity College Dublin and at Brown University, USA. Ribeiro de Meneses has published extensively on many aspects of contemporary Portuguese history, including the First World War, Salazar’s New State, and the impact of decolonization. He is also a member of the Association of British and Irish Lusitanists and of the Royal Irish Academy Committee for Historical Sciences Research.