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Searc's Web Guide to 20th Century Ireland - Robert Erskine Childers (1870-1922) Email: info@searcs-web.com Tel: (+353) 7495 46992 Robert Erskine Childers was born in London. He grew up in County Wicklow and was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge. He was a Clerk in the House of Commons before becoming a British Army Officer. Childers was wounded during the Boer War in South Africa in 1900. In 1903 he published The Riddle of the Sands , a prophetic war novel. Childers became increasingly interested in Irish politics and in 1912 he published The Form and Purpose of Home Rule . In 1914 he smuggled guns for the Irish Volunteers from Germany to Howth, Dublin in his yacht, The Asgard. At the outbreak of the First World War Childers joined the British Navy as an Intelligence Officer and received the DSO in 1916. After World War I Childers resumed his republican activities and in 1919 he was made Director of Publicity for the First Dáil. In 1920 Childers published Military Rule in Ireland and in 1921 he was a member of the Irish Treaty Delegation but he opposed the signing of the Anglo-Irish Treaty. In 1922 Childers was arrested for having a pistol, said to have been given him by

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A B C D ... Contact Beta 0.71 powered by: akademie.de PHP PostgreSQL Google News about your search term Robert Erskine Childers Inhaltsverzeichnis 1 Overview 2 Early Life 3 Military career 4 Home Rule ... 5 Civil War and Death Overview Robert Erskine Childers June 25 November 24 ) was a British soldier, sailor, author and Irish nationalist who was killed during the Irish Civil War for his opposition to the Anglo-Irish Treaty . He was the son of Robert Caesar Childers ; the cousin of Hugh Childers and Robert Barton ; and the father of Erskine Hamilton Childers Early Life Childers was born into a Protestant family in London . His father was English and his mother Irish, but he was orphaned as a child and raised by an uncle in County Wicklow Ireland . He studied at Trinity College, Cambridge and after graduation took a job in as a clerk in the House of Commons . He was an enthusiastic yachtsman , owning several boats during his life and sailing them regularly. At this point in his career he was a British patriot. Military career On the outbreak of the Boer War in he volunteered for action, serving as an officer in the City Imperial Volunteers

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26 The Seven Siels SELECTING the very humblest Gasthaus I could discover, I laid down my bundle and called for beer, bread, and Wurst . The landlord, as I had expected, spoke the Frisian dialect, so that though he was rather difficult to understand, he had no doubts about the purity of my own German high accent. He was a worthy fellow, and hospitably interested: 'Did I want a bed?' 'No; I was going on to Bensersiel,' I said, 'to sleep there, and take the morning Postschiff to Langeoog Island.' (I had not forgotten our friends the twin giants and their functions.) 'I was not an islander myself?' he asked. 'No, but I had a married sister there; had just returned from a year's voyaging, and was going to visit her.' 'By the way,' I asked, 'how are they getting on with the Benser Tief?' My friend shrugged his shoulders; it was finished, he believed. 'And the connexion to Wittmund?' 'Under construction still.' 'Langeoog would be going ahead then?' 'Oh! he supposed so, but he did not believe in these new-fangled schemes.' 'But it was good for trade, I supposed? Esens would benefit in sending goods by the "tief" - what was the traffic, by the way?' 'Oh, a few more barge-loads than before of bricks, timber, coals, etc., but it would come to nothing he 'That's the name,' said mine host, 'that's one of them - some sort of foreigner, I've heard; runs a salvage concern, too, Juist way.'

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Back to Index NEXT PAGE Erskine Childers Robert Erskine Childers was shot by an Irish Free State firing squad Nov. 24, 1922, after being convicted of having a small pistol. He had been one of the leaders, with Eamon de Valera, of the Irish Republican Army rebellion against the Free State leadership of Michael Collins and Arthur Griffith. His son, Erskine Hamilton Childers, was president of Ireland in 1973-4. Childers, shown here in a photo around the time of the Boer War, was a cousin of Hugh Childers, who served Gladstone as First Lord of the Admiralty and Minister of War. As a clerk in the House of Commons, Erskine Childers had free time to sail on his 30-foot cutter Vixen (which must have been the prototype for Dulcibella ) including to the Baltic and Friesland Islands. After a tour in his larger yacht, Sunbeam, Childers wrote The Riddle of the Sands, in 1903. Although the book was not published until 1915 in the United States, Childers in 1903 traveled to the United States, where he met and married Mollie Osgood, daughter of a Boston physician. They had a 50-foot ketch, Asgard

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Enjoy Free Classics Site Map Electronic Library Erskine Childers Riddle Of The Sands Riddle Of The Sands by Erskine Childers previous: 28 We Achieve our Double Aim Epilogue BY THE EDITOR [For this chapter see Map A.] AN interesting document, somewhat damaged by fire, lies on my study table. It is a copy (in cipher) of a confidential memorandum to the German Government embodying a scheme for the invasion of England by Germany. It is unsigned, but internal evidence, and the fact that it was taken by Mr 'Carruthers' from the stove of the villa at Norderney, leave no doubt as to its authorship. For many reasons it is out of the question to print the textual translation of it, as deciphered; but I propose to give an outline of its contents. Even this must strain discretion to its uttermost limits, and had I only to consider the instructed few who follow the trend of professional opinion on such subjects, I should leave the foregoing narrative to speak for itself. But, as was stated in the preface, our primary purpose is to reach everyone; and there may be many who, in spite of able and authoritative warnings frequently uttered since these events occurred, are still prone to treat the German danger as an idle 'bogey', and may be disposed, in this case, to imagine that a baseless romance has been foisted on them. The only logical alternative is then propounded: to despatch an army of infantry with the lightest type of field-guns in big sea-going lighters, towed by powerful but shallow-draught tugs, under escort of a powerful composite squadron of warships; and to fling the flotilla, at high tide, if possible, straight upon the shore.

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Erskine Hamilton Childers Erskine Hamilton Childers November 11 November 17 ), the son of Robert Erskine Childers (the author of The Riddle of the Sands ), served as the fourth President of Ireland from 1973 until his death in 1974. He served as a TD Tánaiste of the Republic of Ireland in 1969. ERSKINE CHILDERS President of Ireland Rank: Term of Office: 25 June 17 November died in office of a heart attack Number of Terms: Predecessor: Eamon de Valera Successor: Cearbhall Ó Dálaigh Date of Birth: November 11 Place of Birth: London, England Date of Death: November 17 Place of Death: Dublin, Ireland First Lady Rita Childers Profession politician Nominated by: Fianna Fáil Other candidates: Fine Gael: Tom O'Higgins Childers was born in London and educated in Britain, hence his striking British upper class accent. He became a naturalised Irish citizen in . As a member of Fianna Fáil he held a number of ministerial posts in the Dáil in the cabinets of Eamon de Valera Sean Lemass and Jack Lynch , becoming Tánaiste (deputy prime minister) in 1969. Erskine's period as a minister was controversial. One commentator described his ministerial career as 'spectacularly unsuccessful'. Others praised his willingness to take tough decisions. He was outspoken in his opposition to Charles J. Haughey

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