On this day in 1922, Republican revolutionary Erskine Childers, was executed by counter-revolutionaries in Beggars Bush Barracks, Dublin. #ErskineChilders | #CounterRevolution1922

Remembering my great-grandfather #ErskineChilders today as well. I often wonder what he would make of his beloved Ireland today.

#Speirgorm

On this day in 1922, Republican revolutionary Erskine Childers, was executed by counter-revolutionaries in Beggars Bush Barracks, Dublin. #ErskineChilders | #CounterRevolution1922

#Currentlyreading #TheRiddleOfTheSands by #ErskineChilders and I’m loving it! Must read for fans of early 20th century English lit.
#Booksky

6:55pm TODAY on @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social

The 1979 #Spy #Thriller film🎥 “The Riddle of The Sands” directed by #TonyMaylam & co-written with #JohnBailey

Based on the 1903 novel📖 by #ErskineChilders

👌 #MichaelYork #SimonMacCorkindale #JennyAgutter #AlanBadel #MichaelSheard #HansMeyer

6:20pm TODAY on @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social

The 1979 #Spy #Thriller film🎥 “The Riddle of The Sands” directed by #TonyMaylam & co-written with #JohnBailey

Based on the 1903 novel📖 by #ErskineChilders

🌟 #MichaelYork #SimonMacCorkindale #JennyAgutter #AlanBadel #MichaelSheard #HansMeyer

I found a fascinating TV interview from 1984, of my father, then a Director of UNDP, asked live about his granddad’s execution, and nearly letting the interviewer have it about what he researched about Churchill’s involvement.

Once I get clearance, I will share it ( hopefully )

#ErskineChilders

one sheet; printed from the 1925/1926 time shows that GGrandad’s Cumann was active within SF, even after his death.

Irish Classes were taught in his memory, fully supported by Molly Childers and the family.

#ErskineChilders
#RobertErskineChilders
#77Executed
#Speirgorm
#Spéirghorm

4:40pm TODAY on @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social

The 1979 #Spy #Thriller film🎥 “The Riddle of The Sands” directed by #TonyMaylam & co-written with #JohnBailey

Based on the 1903 novel📖 by #ErskineChilders

🌟 #MichaelYork #SimonMacCorkindale #JennyAgutter #AlanBadel #MichaelSheard #HansMeyer

On #ThisDayInHistory in 1922, the #IrishFreeState executed nine men, including novelist #ErskineChilders (who was killed for owning a pistol while being Protestant). Free State executed at ~3x the rate of the UK during the independence war, contributing to the #IrishCivilWar.

There was a narrative in Naval circles in the years after 1914 that liked blaming #WilliamLeQueux & #ErskineChilders for the ramp up to the Great War. Of course this was silly, and subsequently, historians are much closer in agreement that as far back at 1902, the Royal Navy with the....

#MarsHillBlog Post On Cambridge University appointing it’s first ever Chair of Irish History #AlvinJackson #ErskineChilders #ErskineHChilders #CambridgeUniversity #UnitedKingdom #Ireland paulburgin.blogspot.com/2026/02/camb...