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5 unusual facts about Robert Erskine Childers


Erskine Childers

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

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.

HMS Riviera

A notable member of her crew was Robert Erskine Childers whose knowledge of the west German coast was considered very important in the raid.

W. T. Cosgrave

In all 77 republicans were executed by the Free State between November 1922 and the end of the war in May 1923, including Robert Erskine Childers, Liam Mellowes and Rory O'Connor, far more than the 14 IRA Volunteers the British executed in the War of Independence.

Wadden Sea

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



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