Tag: Riddle of the Sands

#OTD in 1922 – Robert Erskine Childers was executed by a Free State firing squad at 7am in Dublin.

24/11/2022.Reading time 2 minutes.

Nationalist, Robert Erskine Childers, author of Riddle of the Sands, arms smuggler, father of the fourth president of Ireland Erskine Childers was executed by Free State government for carrying an unlawful weapon at 7am in Dublin (as well as eight other IRA members). Childers supported the Anti-Treaty forces in the vicious Irish civil war which […]

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#OTD in 1922 – Robert Erskine was executed by a Free State firing squad at 7am in Dublin.

24/11/2021.Reading time 2 minutes.

Nationalist, Robert Erskine Childers, author of Riddle of the Sands, arms smuggler, father of the fourth president of Ireland Erskine Childers was executed by Free State government for carrying an unlawful weapon at 7am in Dublin (as well as eight other IRA members). Childers supported the Anti-Treaty forces in the vicious Irish civil war which […]

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#OTD in 1922 – Robert Erskine was executed by a Free State firing squad at 7am in Dublin.

24/11/2020.Reading time 2 minutes.

Nationalist, Robert Erskine Childers, author of Riddle of the Sands, arms smuggler, father of the fourth president of Ireland Erskine Childers was executed by Free State government for carrying an unlawful weapon at 7am in Dublin (as well as eight other IRA members). Childers supported the Anti-Treaty forces in the vicious Irish civil war which […]

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#OTD in 1922 – Robert Erskine was executed by a Free State firing squad at 7am in Dublin.

24/11/2019.Reading time 2 minutes.

Nationalist, Robert Erskine Childers, author of Riddle of the Sands, arms smuggler, father of the fourth president of Ireland Erskine Childers was executed by Free State government for carrying an unlawful weapon at 7am in Dublin (as well as eight other IRA members). Childers supported the Anti-Treaty forces in the vicious Irish civil war which […]

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#OTD in 1922 – Robert Erskine was executed by a Free State firing squad at 7am in Dublin.

24/11/2018.Reading time 2 minutes.

Nationalist, Robert Erskine Childers, author of Riddle of the Sands, arms smuggler, father of the fourth president of Ireland Erskine Childers was executed by Free State government for carrying an unlawful weapon at 7am in Dublin (as well as eight other IRA members). Childers supported the Anti-Treaty forces in the vicious Irish civil war which […]

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#OTD in 1922 – Robert Erskine Childers was executed by a Free State Firing Squad at 7AM in Dublin.

24/11/2017.Reading time 2 minutes.

Nationalist, Robert Erskine Childers, author of Riddle of the Sands, arms smuggler, father of the fourth president of Ireland Erskine Childers was executed by Free State government for carrying an unlawful weapon at 7am in Dublin (as well as eight other IRA members). Childers supported the Anti-Treaty forces in the vicious Irish civil war which […]

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1922 – Robert Erskine Childers was executed by a Free State firing squad at 7am in Dublin.

24/11/2016.Reading time 2 minutes.

Nationalist, Robert Erskine Childers, author of Riddle of the Sands, arms smuggler, father of the fourth president of Ireland Erskine Childers was executed by Free State government for carrying an unlawful weapon at 7am in Dublin. Childers supported the Anti-Treaty forces in the vicious Irish civil war which plagued the country from 1921-1923. Ironically, the […]

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