Posted by Adam Quinan on March 29, 2006 at 12:10:05 from 72.136.51.111 user Adam.
In Reply to: Re: Riddle of the Sands Undefinaable readability posted by Jeremy Kriewaldt on March 29, 2006 at 04:58:43:
Jeremy Kriewaldt wrote: 2. He was a man who, when he held a view tended to hold it wholeheartedly - when he came to support Home Rule, he ended up being a partisan of Michael Collins and disapproved of de Valera's compromise in creating the Irish Free State. He was executed for treason by the Free State because of this partisan position.
It was the other way around, Collins supported the treaty and de Valera was opposed. Collins was also killed by the anti-treaty side during the civil war. Technically Childers was executed for carrying an illegal gun, which had been given to him, ironically, by Collins when they had been colleagues.