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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 51. Chapters: Robert Emmet, Robert Erskine Childers, Kevin Barry, Oliver Plunkett, Brian O'Rourke, Liam Mellows, Thomas MacDonagh, Tom Williams, The Forgotten Ten, Thomas Russell, Charlie Kerins, Nicholas Sheehy, Felim O'Neill of Kinard, Joe McKelvey, Philip Cross, Patrick Moran, Frank Flood, Diarmaid O hUrthuile, Joseph O'Sullivan, Irish Catholic Martyrs, Half Hung MacNaghten, Rory O'Connor, Thomas Traynor, Edward Despard, Joseph Wall, Sir John Bourke of Brittas, Concobhar O Duibheannaigh, Bagenal Harvey, Richard Barrett, Thomas Whelan, Edmond Foley, Patrick O'Hely, Henry Joy McCracken, Patrick Doyle, Lawrence Kavenagh, Patrick Maher, Captain Gallagher, Bernard Ryan, James Butler, 5th Earl of Ormond, Thomas Bryan, Mogue Kearns, Piaras Feiritear, Reginald Dunne, Charlie Daly, Michael Manning, Brian Mac Giolla Phadraig, William Tirry, Martin Glynn, Patrick O'Loughran, William mac an Iarla Burke, Wyllow, Neesy O'Haughan, Diarmait MacCairbre. Excerpt: Robert Erskine Childers DSC (25 June 1870 - 24 November 1922), universally known as Erskine Childers, ( ) was the author of the influential novel Riddle of the Sands and an Irish nationalist, who was executed by the authorities of the nascent Irish Free State during the Irish Civil War. He was the son of British Orientalist scholar Robert Caesar Childers; the cousin of Hugh Childers and Robert Barton; and the father of the fourth President of Ireland, Erskine Hamilton Childers. Childers was born in Mayfair, London, the second son to Robert Caesar Childers, a translator and oriental scholar from an ecclesiastical family, and Anna Mary Henrietta, nee Barton, from an Anglo-Irish landowning family of Glendalough House, Annamoe, County Wicklow with interests in France such as the winery that bears their name. When Erskine was six his father died from tuberculosis and, although seemingly hea...
