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3 unusual facts about Erskine Childers


Erskine Childers

Erskine Hamilton Childers (1905–1974), Fianna Fáil minister who became President of Ireland, son of the above

Erskine Barton Childers (1929–1996), UN civil servant, Senior Adviser to UN Director-General for Development and International Economic Co-operation, son of the above

Robert Erskine Childers (1870–1922), author and Irish nationalist, who served as secretary-general of the Irish delegation that negotiated the Anglo-Irish Treaty in 1921


Jim Ring

He is best known for his biography of the English thriller writer Erskine Childers, which won the Marsh Biography Award.

Wadden Sea

The German part of the Wadden Sea was the setting for the 1903 Erskine Childers novel The Riddle of the Sands.


see also

Rita Childers

Rita and Erskine Childers' daughter, Nessa, entered politics in 2004 when she was elected as a councillor on Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council for the Green Party.