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.
- Occupation
- writer, politician, novelist, civil servant
- Position held
- Teachta Dála
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Irish Free State
- Born
- June 25, 1870
- Died
- November 24, 1922
