Childers and Ransome


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Posted by Jeremy Kriewaldt on July 28, 2005 at 23:34:12 from 202.138.212.58 user JeremyKriewaldt.

I have just been reading Jim Ring's biography of Erskine Childers. As we know, AR regarded The Riddle of the Sands as a favourite - it appears in CF's books in the Houseboat.

However, do we know what AR thought about Childers himself?

After all, Childers' role in relation to Irish independence (especially the result that he was shot as a traitor by the new Irish governmen in 1922) having played a real part in the negotiations leading to separation of Southern Ireland from the UK, could have been seen as a warning to AR when he started to get too involved in politics.

It is also interesting that both Childers and AR seem to have had a capacity for being mistrusted by people who should have known better...


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