About Erskine Childers

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 (1903) about German preparations for a sea-borne invasion of England, and proposals for achieving Irish independence.

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Occupation: writer, politician, novelist, civil servant

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Erskine Childers

Irish nationalist and author (1870-1922)

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