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Erskine Barton Childers (11 March 1929 – 25 August 1996) was an Irish writer, BBC correspondent and United Nations senior civil servant.
Erskine Childers was a British imperialist and an Irish republican. His upbringing lent him to the former; his convictions in later life inclined towards the latter. Nothing became his life...
- Ronan Mcgreevy
Robert Erskine Childers DSC (25 June 1870 – 24 November 1922), usually known as Erskine Childers (/ ˈ ɜːr s k ɪ n ˈ tʃ ɪ l d ər z /), was an English-born Irish nationalist who established himself as a writer with accounts of the Second Boer War, the novel The Riddle of the Sands about German preparations for a sea-borne ...
24 de nov. de 2022 · On November 24th, 1922, Erskine Childers became the best-known republican prisoner to be executed during the Civil War. Fifteen men were selected for the firing squad, but only five had live...
- Ronan Mcgreevy
26 de nov. de 2022 · Erskine Childers was executed by the Irish Free State, 100 years ago this November, in Dublin’s Beggar’s Bush Barracks. An urbane intellectual but also military man and skilled propagandist, his life’s journey defies easy explanations.
The Free State government had nothing to pin a charge on Robert Erskine Childers just hours before National Army soldiers found him with a pistol that was used to justify his execution at his...
10 de out. de 2023 · All loss of human life is to be regretted, but the killing of Erskine Childers during the Irish Civil War in 1922 was particularly tragic. The Childers family, of Yorkshire gentry stock, established an Irish connection in the late nineteenth century through marriage ties with the Bartons of Glendalough House, Co Wicklow.
