Seán Barrett | [95] The high command of the anti-treaty forces distanced themselves from Childers on the grounds that he was too infamous to be of any practical use, despite his considerable military experience,[96] and at one stage he was put to work addressing letters in the staff office in Macroom, County Cork. Charles J. Haughey | It was as a prospective Liberal Party candidate for Parliament that Childers wrote his last major book: The Framework for Home Rule (1911).
In the course of the debates some felt that Childers had been insulted by Arthur Griffith, and the matter was debated in June. Máire Geoghegan-Quinn | [6], The Liberals' Home Rule Bill, introduced in 1912, would eventually pass into law in 1914, but was immediately – by a separate Act of Parliament – shelved for the duration of the Great War which had just begun, whilst the Amending Bill to exclude six of the nine counties of Ulster, the duration of whose provisions still remained a matter of debate, was eliminated altogether.[83][84].

[57], In January 1901, Childers started work on his novel, The Riddle of the Sands, but initially progress was slow:[58] it was not until winter of that year that he was able to tell Williams, in one of his regular letters, of the outline of the plot. [97][98][99] The gun had been a gift from Michael Collins before Collins became head of the pro-treaty Provisional Government. November 1922 in Dublin) war ein irischer Schriftsteller, Politiker und prominenter Anhänger der irischen Unabhängigkeitsbewegung. Martin Cullen | This included the wealthier and more industrialised counties around Belfast. Patrick Donegan | Brian Cowen | He became editor of the Irish Bulletin after the arrest of the young Desmond FitzGerald. Although Erskine was an admirer of his cousin Hugh Childers, a member of the British Cabinet working for Irish home rule, at this stage he spoke vehemently against the policy in college debates. Durch die blutige Niederschlagung des Osteraufstandes im April 1916 wurde er nochmals radikalisiert und schloss sich der Sinn Féin um Éamon de Valera und Michael Collins an. John P. Wilson | Mary O’Rourke | Hugh Coveney |

Der in Großbritannien aufgewachsene Childers arbeitete nach Abschluss seines Studiums an der Universität Cambridge für ein Tourismusbüro in Paris, um anschließend in Dublin als Pressemitarbeiter tätig zu sein. Mary Coughlan |

Of all the men I ever met, I would say he was the noblest". He was the son of British Orientalist scholar Robert Caesar Childers; the cousin of Hugh Childers and Robe… [80] His friend and biographer Basil Williams noticed his growing doubts about Britain's actions in South Africa while they were on campaign together: "Both of us, who came out as hide-bound Tories, began to tend towards more liberal ideas, partly from the ... democratic company we were keeping, but chiefly, I think, from our discussions on politics and life generally. As the well-known writer of The Riddle of the Sands, with its implied support for an expanded Royal Navy, Childers could hardly fail to win the vote whenever the next election was called. Piper (2003: 19): "The duties included drafting and continually re-drafting proposed legislation…carefully selecting words and phrases to comply with the compromises reached by the politicians…", In later years Childers's enemies in the new. [6], In mid-August 1914, he again volunteered and received a temporary commission as lieutenant in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve. His last letter, written from the condemned cell to his wife, was signed "Erskine".

Stephen Donnelly. Während des Ersten Weltkrieges diente Childers als Offizier in der Royal Navy auf der Nordsee sowie an den Dardanellen. [68], Motivated by his expectation of war with Germany, Childers wrote two books on cavalry warfare, both strongly critical of what he saw as outmoded British tactics.

[32] It took Childers until autumn of that year to extricate himself and train for service with a new coastal motor-boat squadron operating in the English Channel. Brendan Daly | Brian Cowen | [9], Having gained his degree in law, and planning to one day follow his cousin Hugh into the British Parliament as an MP,[10] Childers sat the competitive entry examination to become a parliamentary official, and early in 1895 he became a junior committee clerk in the House of Commons, with responsibility for preparing formal and legally sound bills from the proposals of the government of the day. Conor Cruise O’Brien | [88] He rented a house in Dublin, but Molly was reluctant to join him: mindful of her sons' education, and believing that she and her husband could best serve the cause by influencing opinion in London.
1969 wurde er zum Tánaiste (stellvertretender Premierminister) ernannt. It featured Michael Maloney as Childers, Deborah Norton as Molly Childers, Natascha McElhone as his sister Dulcie and Laura Hughes as his sister Constance.

Michael Keyes | In 1894, while he was living in Glendalough, he bought a Dublin Bay Water Wag, a 13-foot type of sailing boat usually sailed in Dún Laoghaire, pear-shaped with a single gaff-rigged sail.

He was later said to be a Captain in the Anti-Treaty forces. Mary Harney |