• Thumbnail for Frank Aiken
    Fáil. Frank Aiken was born on 13 February 1898 at Carrickbracken, Camlough, County Armagh, Ireland, the seventh and youngest child of James Aiken, a builder...
    44 KB (4,943 words) - 20:53, 26 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Irish Civil War
    allowed the more pragmatic Frank Aiken, who took over as IRA Chief of Staff, to call a halt to what seemed a futile struggle. Aiken's accession to IRA leadership...
    90 KB (11,314 words) - 11:49, 30 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Seán Lemass
    foreign policy. Frank Aiken served as Minister for External Affairs during the whole of Lemass's tenure as Taoiseach. At the United Nations, Aiken took an independent...
    55 KB (6,283 words) - 21:04, 26 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Éamon de Valera
    surrender without disarming. On 30 April 1923, the IRA's new Chief of Staff, Frank Aiken (Lynch had been killed), called a ceasefire. This was followed on 24...
    130 KB (13,956 words) - 20:53, 26 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Clay Aiken
    Clayton Holmes Aiken (né Grissom; born November 30, 1978) is an American singer, television personality, actor, politician, and activist. Aiken finished second...
    93 KB (9,669 words) - 15:40, 2 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Irish Republican Army (1922–1969)
    on 24 May 1923, the anti-Treaty forces received an order, issued by Frank Aiken, their chief-of-staff, to "dump arms". Éamon de Valera supported this...
    66 KB (8,560 words) - 20:00, 31 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Irish War of Independence
    This operation had been approved by Michael Collins, Richard Mulcahy, Frank Aiken and Eoin O'Duffy. The Northern Ireland authorities responded by sealing-off...
    131 KB (15,978 words) - 03:54, 2 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Seán T. O'Kelly
    or in one notorious case the sight of O'Kelly and Defense Minister Frank Aiken storming out of a diplomatic function at the French Legation when McNeill...
    37 KB (3,942 words) - 20:52, 26 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Ireland–Palestine relations
    refugees who fled the Six-Day War in 1967. In 1969, Irish Foreign Minister Frank Aiken described the problem as the "main and most pressing objective" of Ireland's...
    9 KB (762 words) - 09:57, 28 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Irish Republican Army (1919–1922)
    war, ending in the defeat of the anti-Treaty faction. On 24 May 1923, Frank Aiken, the (anti-treaty) IRA Chief-of-Staff, called a cease-fire. Many left...
    37 KB (4,797 words) - 09:58, 4 May 2024
  • office 2 July 1969 – 14 March 1973 Taoiseach Jack Lynch Preceded by Frank Aiken Succeeded by Brendan Corish Minister for Health In office 2 July 1969 –...
    22 KB (1,630 words) - 20:59, 26 May 2024
  • is broken down in sub-lists of various organisations known as the IRA Frank Aiken (1898–1983), a founding member of Fianna Fáil; commanded the Fourth Northern...
    19 KB (2,116 words) - 19:23, 1 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Liam Lynch (Irish republican)
    they carried, he ordered his men, including soon-to-be chief of staff Frank Aiken, to leave him behind. When the National Army soldiers reached Lynch they...
    21 KB (2,683 words) - 07:09, 1 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Seán MacEntee
    Irish Ambassador Frank Biggar (1917–1974); Barbara and Frank's eldest son is former Irish ambassador John Biggar (1952–). Barbara and Frank's third son was...
    32 KB (2,662 words) - 21:04, 26 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Irish Republic
    militant opposition to the Free State came to an end on 24 May 1923 when Frank Aiken, chief-of-staff of the IRA, issued the order to "dump arms", and Éamon...
    43 KB (5,267 words) - 01:34, 21 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Aiken Barracks
    barracks was originally known as Dundalk Barracks and was renamed after Frank Aiken, a commander of the Irish Republican Army and an Irish politician. It...
    16 KB (1,538 words) - 04:33, 12 January 2024
  • Rise of Populism on the Left and among Independents". In Toril Aalberg; Frank Esser; Carsten Reinemann; Jesper Stromback; Claes De Vreese (eds.). Populist...
    188 KB (16,059 words) - 17:50, 2 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for The Emergency (Ireland)
    charge of the Minister for the Co-ordination of Defensive Measures, Frank Aiken. It was necessary to prevent publication of matter that might undermine...
    68 KB (9,143 words) - 19:37, 8 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Gerry Adams
    flirting with the idea of an independent Ulster. Inasmuch as they were "frank" , Adams found the meetings "constructive", but could find no common political...
    81 KB (7,561 words) - 04:17, 1 June 2024
  • politician Edmund Aiken (born 1962), English singer and rapper, known as Shinehead Frank Aiken (1898–1983), Irish politician Frederick Aiken (1832–1878), American...
    4 KB (489 words) - 11:21, 13 July 2023
  • Thumbnail for Patrick Hillery
    support of Leader of the Opposition, Garret FitzGerald, of Fine Gael and Frank Cluskey, of the Labour Party. In 2008, Historian John Walsh claimed that...
    33 KB (3,585 words) - 21:03, 26 May 2024
  • the Minister for Finance in 1943. He served under Seán T. O'Kelly and Frank Aiken during his tenure in the department. He was briefly Parliamentary Secretary...
    15 KB (1,088 words) - 20:57, 26 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Oscar Traynor
    September 1939 – 18 February 1948 Taoiseach Éamon de Valera Preceded by Frank Aiken Succeeded by Thomas F. O'Higgins Minister for Posts and Telegraphs In...
    11 KB (706 words) - 20:56, 26 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Louth (Dáil constituency)
    Deputy (Party) 4th 1923 Frank Aiken (Rep) James Murphy (CnaG) Peter Hughes (CnaG) 3 seats until 1977 5th 1927 (Jun) Frank Aiken (FF) James Coburn (NL)...
    123 KB (2,004 words) - 17:43, 8 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Charles Haughey
    of a total of nearly one million. De Valera came to distrust Haughey; Frank Aiken, Minister for Foreign Affairs under de Valera and his lifelong political...
    84 KB (9,175 words) - 20:57, 26 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for James Ryan (Irish politician)
    cabinet (1932–1933) President of the Executive Council: Éamon de Valera Frank Aiken Joseph Connolly Thomas Derrig James Geoghegan Seán Lemass Seán MacEntee...
    23 KB (1,950 words) - 20:57, 26 May 2024
  • 1957 – 16 November 1957 Taoiseach Éamon de Valera Preceded by Frank Aiken Succeeded by Frank Aiken Minister for Education In office 13 June 1951 – 2 June 1954...
    11 KB (720 words) - 20:52, 26 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for National Army (Ireland)
    left one, Stephen Fuller, who was blown clear by the blast to escape. Frank Aiken, IRA Chief of Staff ordered IRA volunteers to dump arms on 24 May 1923...
    19 KB (1,997 words) - 22:28, 25 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Taoiseach
    1937 when the draft Constitution of Ireland was being debated in the Dáil, Frank MacDermot, an opposition politician, moved an amendment to substitute "Prime...
    62 KB (3,610 words) - 10:04, 30 May 2024
  • inspection of the North, O'Malley was in South Armagh in October. He joined Frank Aiken (commander of the IRA's 4th Northern Division) and Pádraig Ó Cuinn...
    84 KB (11,392 words) - 15:17, 1 June 2024