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.
[Photographs of Frank Aiken standing on a podium in the grounds of the Central Bank saluting troops passing by in procession before crowds of onlookers at College Green.]
[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.]
[Press photograph of de Valera accompanied by Frank Aiken, Seán MacEntee, Gerald and Kevin Boland, Vivion de Valera and five unidentified individuals arriving by boat at Spike Island, Cobh, Co. Cork.]
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.