[Photograph of Maud Aiken and Members of the Irish Army observing an outdoor show.]

[Photographs of Maud Aiken wearing a white evening dress and a black shawl.]

This selection of press images provides a sample of the photographic archive of Frank Aiken throughout his lengthy political career. These important images chronicle the life of a key figure in twentieth century Irish political history.

[Photograph of Maud Aiken holding a bouquet of flowers and her certificate following her award ceremony as fellow of the Royal Irish Academy of Music.]

[Photograph if Maud Davin and Frank Aiken following the announcement of their engagement.]

[Photographs of Frank and Maud Aiken cutting their wedding cake.]

[Photograph of Frank Aiken, Maud Davin and Mina Davin walking along a railway platform.]

[Photograph of Maud Aiken with a friend and her daughter at the Royal Dublin Horse Show.]

[Photographs of Sinead de Valera and Maud Aiken, following Maud Aiken's award ceremony as fellow of the Royal Irish Academy of Music.]

[Photograph of [the Queen of the Belgians] accompanied by her husband, and Maud and Frank Aiken.]

[Photographs of Maud and Frank Aiken kneeling at their pews reading the wedding ceremonials.]

[Photograph of Maud and Frank Aiken walking through the grounds of the Royal Dublin Horse Show.]

[Photographs of Eamon de Valera and Maud Aiken, following Maud Aiken's award ceremony as fellow of the Royal Irish Academy of Music.]

[Photograph of Princess Grace of Monaco, in conversation with Frank and Maud Aiken.]

[Photograph of Maud Aiken having her goggles secured by Frank Aiken with Irish Army officials watching, before flying with Charles Lindbergh.]

[Photograph of Maud Aiken being aided into an aircraft by Frank Aiken and directed from the plane by Charles Lindbergh.]

[Photograph of Maud Aiken and Eamon de Valera at Dublin airport, watching Frank Aiken’s flight to the United States.]

[Photographs of Frank Aiken, wishing his wife, Maud, and his children, Aedamar, Frank and Lochlann, goodbye, from Shannon Airport, before his trip around the world with Eamon de Valera.]

[Group photographs of Frank Aiken, Sinead and Eamon de Valera, [Bob Briscoe], and members of the Executive Committee of the Royal Irish Academy of Music at Maud Aiken’s fellowship award ceremony.]

The Irish Virtual Research Library and Archive (IVRLA) is a digitisation project launched in UCD in January 2005. The project was conceived as a means to increase and facilitate access to UCD’s cultural heritage repositories through the adoption of digitisation technologies.