Erskine Childers, executed Irish soldier, journalist, and author (born 1870)

Erskine Childers (author)

Irish nationalist and author (1870–1922)

Robert Erskine Childers, usually known as Erskine Childers, 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 invasion of England, and…