He studied History and Philosophy in Trinity College Dublin, where I also concluded my PhD in History. I joined NUI Maynooth in 1997/8. He have published widely in aspects of contemporary Portuguese and Spanish history. In 2005/6 I was a Senior Visiting Fellow at the Instituto de Ciências Sociais, in the University of Lisbon, the 2012/2013 FLAD/Brown Michael Teague Visiting Professor of Portuguese and Brazilian Studies at Brown University, and a Visiting Fellow at the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies at the University of Notre Dame in 2024. He was elected to the Royal Irish Academy in 2017.
He is interested in contemporary Portuguese and Spanish history; the First World War and its effects; and diplomatic history in general. He published a biography of António de Oliveira Salazar, which was translated into Portuguese, being published in both Portugal and Brazil. He was the recipient of two major IRCHSS fellowships, the first in 2005-06 and the second in 2011-12. He is currently leading a project aimed at collecting, translating, editing and eventually publishing foreign diplomatic documentation about Ireland in the 20th Century.
Ribeiro de Meneses, F. (2021). António de Oliveira Salazar (1932-1968). In Os Primeiros-Ministros de Portugal, 1820-2020, Vol. III: Presidentes do Ministério na Ditadura Militar e Presidentes do Conselho de Ministros no Estado Novo (1926-1974). Lisbon: Imprensa Nacional/Casa da Moeda.
Ribeiro de Meneses, F. (2020). Portugal: the Carnation Revolution. In Revolutions: How They Changed History and What They Mean Today. London: Thames & Hudson.
Ribeiro de Meneses, F. (2020). Diplomacia, Defesa e Guerra, 1961-1974. In Os anos sessenta em Portugal: duas governações, diferentes políticas públicas? Porto: Edições Afrontamento.
Ribeiro de Meneses, F. (2018). Ni Union Ni Sacrée: Le Portugal en Guerre, 1916-1917. In Les Fronts Intérieurs Européens: L’arrière en guerre (1914-1920). Rennes: Presses Universitaires de Rennes.
Ribeiro de Meneses, F. (2018). A África Portuguesa na rota das grandes potências: perspetivas e constrangimentos. In História Militar Concisa da Participação de Portugal na 1ª Guerra Mundial. Lisbon: Comissão Portuguesa de História Militar.
Rollo, M. F., Pires, A. P., & Ribeiro de Meneses, F. (2017). Portugal. In 1914-1918-online. International Encyclopedia of the First World War. Berlin: Freie Universität Berlin.
De Meneses, F. (2017). The idea of empire in Portuguese and Spanish life, 1890 to 1975. In The Routledge Companion to Iberian Studies. https://doi.org/
Ribeiro de Meneses, F. (2016). Between Acceptance and Refusal – Soldiers’ Attitudes Towards War (Portugal). In 1914-1918-online. International Encyclopedia of the First World War. Berlin: Freie Universität Berlin.
Ribeiro de Meneses, F. (2015). Post-war Settlement (Portugal). In 1914-1918-online. International Encyclopedia of the First World War. Berlin: Freie Universität Berlin.
Ribeiro de Meneses, F. (2014). Portuguese Intervention. In Sharp, A. (Ed.), 28 June. Sarajevo 1914–Versailles 1919: The War and Peace that Made the Modern World. London: Haus.
Ribeiro de Meneses, F. (2014). The Portuguese Empire. In Gerwarth, R., & Manela, E. (Eds.), Empires at War, 1911-1923. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Ribeiro de Meneses, F. (2014). Civil-Military Relations during World War I (Portugal). In Daniel, U., Gatrell, P., Janz, O., Jones, H., Keene, J., Kramer, A., & Nasson, B. (Eds.), 1914-1918-online. International Encyclopedia of the First World War. Berlin: Freie Universität Berlin.
Ribeiro de Meneses, F. (2014). Revolutions (Portugal). In Daniel, U., Gatrell, P., Janz, O., Jones, H., Keene, J., Kramer, A., & Nasson, B. (Eds.), 1914-1918-online. International Encyclopedia of the First World War. Berlin: Freie Universität Berlin.
Ribeiro de Meneses, F., & McNamara, R. (2014). A África do Sul Face à “Descolonização Exemplar” Portuguesa. In Jerónimo, M. B., & Costa Pinto, A. (Eds.), Portugal e o Fim do Colonialismo: Dimensões Internacionais. Lisbon: Edições 70.
Ribeiro de Meneses, F. (2014). Governments, Parliaments and Parties (Portugal). In Daniel, U., Gatrell, P., Janz, O., Jones, H., Keene, J., Kramer, A., & Nasson, B. (Eds.), 1914-1918-online. International Encyclopedia of the First World War. Berlin: Freie Universität Berlin.
Ribeiro de Meneses, F. (2014). O Império Português. In Gerwarth, R., & Manela, E. (Eds.), Impérios em Guerra, 1911-1923. Lisbon: Dom Quixote.
Ribeiro de Meneses, F. (2014). War Aims and War Aims Discussions (Portugal). In Daniel, U., Gatrell, P., Janz, O., Jones, H., Keene, J., Kramer, A., & Nasson, B. (Eds.), 1914-1918-online. International Encyclopedia of the First World War. Berlin: Freie Universität Berlin.