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unusual facts about Erskine Hamilton Childers


Erskine Childers

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


Hans Place

The delegates were Arthur Griffith, Robert Barton, and Michael Collins; Secretary to the delegation was Robert Erskine Childers who was also Robert Barton's cousin and father of the Fourth President of Ireland Erskine Hamilton Childers.

St Mary's Pro-Cathedral

Whereas up to 1973, those ceremonies were exclusively denominational, the ceremonies for the inaugurations of President Childers in 1973, President Ó Dálaigh in 1974 and President Hillery in 1976, were multidenominational, with representatives of the Roman Catholic, Church of Ireland, Presbyterian, Methodist and the Jewish faith taking part in the ceremony.


see also

Margaret Dudley

Rita Childers (1915–2010), second wife of Erskine Hamilton Childers, fourth President of Ireland