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Name: (Robert) Erskine Childers
Variant Name: Erskine Childers, Robert Erskine Childers
Birth Date: June 25, 1870
Death Date: November 24, 1922
Nationality: British
Gender: Male

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Biography of (Robert) Erskine Childers
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Erskine Childers intended The Riddle of the Sands (1903) to be a warning, in the guise of a light adventure story, about England's vulnerability to invasion by sea. Today it is viewed by many as the first important British spy novel, a genre that runs...


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Robert Erskine Childers DSO (25 June, 1870–24 November, 1922) was an author and Irish nationalist who was executed by the authorities of the newly independent Irish Free State during the Irish Civil War. He was the son of British Orientalist...


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Contemporary Review
The riddle of Erskine Childers.
08/01/1996: 2,142 words, approx. 7 pages
Jim Ring's 'Erskine Childers: A Biography' has succeeded in portraying the enigmatic writer of 'The Riddle of the Sands' where others failed. He was able to perceive that Erskine saw the liberation of Ireland as the British Empire's way to moral salvation. Erskine was...
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The Independent - London
Obituary: Erskine Childers
08/29/1996: 895 words, approx. 3 pages
Erskine Childers succumbed to a heart attack during the 50th anniversary congress of the World Federation of United Nations Associations, of which he was Secretary- General. It is perhaps fitting for so totally dedicated a man that he died giving all of his energy...
 


 

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