Erskine Childers, President of Ireland: A Biography

by John Frederick Young

Hurriedly summoned from his English public school in November 1922, Erskine Childers was permitted by the Free State authorities to make one brief, final visit to his condemned father in the cells of Portobello Barracks, Dublin, at the height of the Civil War. Not surprisingly, such an emotional ordeal had a profound and lasting impact on the sixteen-year-old boy, who had promised his father in the death-cell to shake hands with and forgive every...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0861401956
• ISBN13: 9780861401956
• Release Date: November 1985
• Publisher: Colin Smythe
• Length: 238 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.8" x 8.5"