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Erskine Childers


Born
in Mayfair, London, England
June 25, 1870

Died
October 24, 1922

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Robert Erskine Childers DSC, universally known as Erskine Childers, was the author of the influential novel The Riddle of the Sands and an Irish nationalist who smuggled guns to Ireland in his sailing yacht Asgard. He was executed by the authorities of the nascent Irish Free State during the Irish Civil War in 1922. He was the son of British Orientalist scholar Robert Caesar Childers; the cousin of Hugh Childers and Robert Barton; and the father of the fourth President of Ireland, Erskine Hamilton Childers.

Childers was a Boer War veteran and was called back to active duty at the start of World War One.

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The Riddle of the Sands

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IN THE RANKS OF THE C.I.V.

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The Riddle of the Sands & I...

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Three Classic Spy Novels

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German Influence on British...

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The Framework of Home Rule

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War and the Arme Blanche

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Summer Reads: 5 Classics

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The Times History of the wa...

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“I had always detested the meddlesome alarmist, who veils ignorance under noisiness, and for ever wails his chant of lugubrious pessimism.”
Erskine Childers

“A keen wind from the west struck our faces, and as swiftly as it had come the fog rolled away from us, in one mighty mass, stripping clean and pure the starry dome of heaven...”
Erskine Childers, The Riddle of the Sands

“- vague, very vague.”
Erskine Childers, The Riddle of the Sands

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