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Ireland's foreign minister Frank Aiken played a key role in the diplomacy that unfolded in June 1967, writes Rory Miller Ireland's foreign minister Frank Aiken played a key role in the diplomacy ...
Roosevelt promised Ireland much-needed supplies only if Britain ... Caroline Erskine reports for RTÉ News on the funeral of Frank Aiken in 1983 Understandably, perhaps, the sensational detail ...
which opens in New York on May 3rd. We in Ireland have a particular interest in this treaty because it was former Irish foreign minister Frank Aiken who first made the case for it more than 50 ...
Frank Aiken, the Fianna Fail minister for external affairs from 1957 to 1969, was determined to make up for lost time. AS a Second World War neutral Ireland was denied membership of the UN until 1955.
Frank Aiken went from Irish Volunteer and IRA commander ... was bitterly opposed to the partition of Ireland and went on to be an IRA commander, and was heavily involved in the Irish Civil War.
Frank Aiken fulfilled his enormous political potential when he was appointed to Foreign Affairs for he adopted an independent stance for Ireland in the UN which won widespread recognition from ...
In May 1923, Armagh-born and newly appointed anti-Treaty IRA chief of staff Frank Aiken issued an order to ... timely and beneficial to the Northern Ireland government, allowing the north to ...
When Aiken asked if Ireland could anticipate the president ... “We don’t pay any attention to Frank’s ideas about finance”, he said. But that did not stop de Valera subsequently appointing ...