Risultati di ricerca
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 ...
Robert Erskine Childers (born June 25, 1870, London, Eng.—died Nov. 24, 1922, Beggar’s Bush, County Dublin, Ire.) was a writer and Irish nationalist, executed for his actions in support of the republican cause in the civil war that followed the establishment of the Irish Free State.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
4 giu 2018 · Sono state queste le ultime parole rivolte al plotone di esecuzione da Robert Erskine Childers, un rivoluzionario anglo-irlandese giustiziato dai suoi stessi compatrioti nel 1922 perché...
23 nov 2022 · Updated / Wednesday, 23 Nov 2022 14:44. By Donal Byrne. Tomorrow marks the 100th anniversary of the execution of Robert Erskine Childers, the British- born gun runner and father of former ...
Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images. Erskine Childers, author of the fabled adventure yarn “The Riddle of the Sands”, was a complicated man who acted according to his own beliefs. English-born but an Irish nationalist, he served in both the Boer War and First World War but, prompted by the suppression of the Easter Rising in 1916, was also ...
- Desmond Maccarthy
Childers, (Robert) Erskine (1870–1922), British civil servant, author, and Sinn Féin propagandist, was born 25 June 1870 in London, second son among five children of Robert Caesar Childers, private secretary to the governor of Ceylon and scholar of Buddhism, and Anna Henrietta Childers (née Barton). The Childers family had long been ...
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. Nothing became his life...
