Erskine Childers portrait unveiled
Top Stories: BreakingNews.ie (Free subscription) | 11/27/2009
A new portrait of Robert Erskine Childers was unveiled in Leinster House today.
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Winston Churchill’s direct involvement in Arsenal nearly led to the end of the club
Making The Arsenal (Free subscription) | 11/22/2009
... which Germany would invade across the North Sea – something that had been predicted in a novel by Erskine Childers (The Riddle of the Sands). (Childers was eventually hanged for treason, but that’s another story, and the hanging of novelists has tended to be less frequent of late I am glad to say). So Churchill, in line with many others, wanted to build up the navy, in order...