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Erskine Barton Childers (11 March 1929 – 25 August 1996) was an Irish writer, BBC correspondent and United Nations senior civil servant.
Robert Erskine Childers DSC (25 June 1870 – 24 November 1922), usually known as Erskine Childers (/ ˈ ɜːr s k ɪ n ˈ tʃ ɪ l d ər z /), was an English-born Irish nationalist who established himself as a writer with accounts of the Second Boer War, the novel The Riddle of the Sands about German preparations for a sea-borne ...
Erskine Childers was a British imperialist and an Irish republican. His upbringing lent him to the former; his convictions in later life inclined towards the latter.
26 nov 2022 · Erskine Childers was executed by the Irish Free State, 100 years ago this November, in Dublin’s Beggar’s Bush Barracks. An urbane intellectual but also military man and skilled propagandist, his life’s journey defies easy explanations.
10 ott 2023 · All loss of human life is to be regretted, but the killing of Erskine Childers during the Irish Civil War in 1922 was particularly tragic. The Childers family, of Yorkshire gentry stock, established an Irish connection in the late nineteenth century through marriage ties with the Bartons of Glendalough House, Co Wicklow.
Childers, Erskine Barton (1929–96), broadcaster, writer, and United Nations official, was born 11 March 1929 in Dublin, eldest of two sons and four daughters of Erskine Hamilton Childers (qv), politician, and Ruth Childers (née Dow), of New Hampshire, USA.
13 nov 2020 · ChildersChilders, Erskine is best known for The Riddle of the Sands: A Record of Secret Service (1903), an early spy novel which became hugely popular in Britain during the years leading up to the beginning of World War One. Its basic premise, that a German invasion...
