Erskine Childers

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Erskine Childers is described as 'a very famous author, the author of The Riddle of the Sands' in the context of his execution by the provisional government during the Civil War.

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Mentioned as the spy novel written by Erskine Childers, who served as secretary of the Irish delegation, described as predicting the kind of First World War.

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Mentioned as a novel written in 1903 by Erskine Childers, whose yacht was used to import guns via Howth for the Irish volunteers

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Described as 'the classic book about German spies and about the Germans plotting to invade Britain'; noted that the author later smuggled guns for the IRA and was executed