Professor Filipe Ribeiro de Meneses joins KNI as a visiting fellow for the fall 2024 semester. As part of his project, Through Foreign Eyes, he will deliver the lecture, "Ireland in 1939: from the anti-partition struggle to the 'Emergency.'"
A welcome reception for Prof. Filipe Ribeiro de Meneses will follow the lecture from 5:00 - 6:00 pm in the Institute's main office, 3130 Jenkins Nanovic Hall.
Lecture Abstract
A first reflection on the ongoing Through Foreign Eyes project, this lecture will explain the purpose of the ongoing research and its immediate future. It will consider in detail the foreign diplomatic coverage of Irish politics in 1939 from the point of view of Dublin-based foreign diplomats who represented very different regimes, and who interpreted Irish affairs accordingly.
Speaker Biography
Filipe Ribeiro de Meneses is Professor of History at Maynooth University and a member of the Royal Irish Academy. He has published extensively on contemporary Portugal and the Portuguese colonial empire, including a biography of dictator António de Oliveira Salazar (2nd edition: Routledge 2023). His latest project, Through Foreign Eyes, attempts to collate, translate, edit and interpret foreign diplomatic documentation about Ireland since its independence.