Frank Aiken : nationalist and internationalist /
Contributor(s): Evans, Bryce | Kelly, Stephen.
Publisher: Sallins, Co. Kildare, Ireland : Irish Academic Press, 2014Description: xx, 340 pages : ill. ; 24 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0716532387; 9780716532385:; 9780716532385.Subject(s): Aiken, Frank, 1898-1983 | Aiken, Frank | Revolutionaries -- Ireland -- Biography | Ireland -- History -- 20th century | Statesmen -- Ireland -- Biography | Ireland -- History -- 20th century | Ireland -- BiographyDDC classification: 941.7Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Acknowledgements -- Glossary and note on capitals -- List of contributors -- List of plates -- Preface / Frank Aiken Jr -- Introduction. Nationalist / Bryce Evans. Internationalist / Stephen Kelly -- Part One : nationalist. Chapter one : Frank Aiken : family, early life and the revolutionary period, 1898 - 1921 / Eoin Magennis. Chaptyr two : Frank Aiken's civil wars, 19220-01939 / Robert Lynch. Chapter three : Frank Aiken and the Volunteer Force of the Irish Army, 1934 - 1939 / Lar Joye. Chapter five : 'the iron man with the wooden head'? Frank Aiken and the Second World War / Bryce Evans. Chapter six : an experiment or a new departure? Frank Aiken in Finance, 1945 - 1948 / Conor Keelan. Chapter seven : From anti-partitionism to realpolitik? Frank Aiken, parition and Northern Ireland, 1948 - 1954 / Stephen Kelly -- Part two : internationalist. Chapter eight : Frank Aiken at the United Nations : some personal recollections / Noel Dorr. Chapter nine : 'personally I think it would be positively hilarious' : the European Convention, the Cyprus Question and Frank Aiken's state of exception / Helen O'Shea. Chapter ten : 'initiative and courage' : Frank Aiken and the Congo crisis, 1960 - 1961 / Michael Kennedy. Chapter eleven : 'China is more important to you than Armagh' : Frank Aiken and Tibet / Kate O'Malley. Chapter thirteen : a man with a cause : Frank Aiken, the Palestine refugee issue and the evolution of Ireland's Middle East policy, 1957 - 1969 / Rory Miller -- Conclusion / Bruce Evans and Stephen Kelly -- Bibliography -- Index.