Erskine Childers: a strange mix of a British imperialist and an Irish republican

By the time he died at the age of 52, Childers had made powerful enemies in the pro-Treaty side

Erskine Childers: a strange mix of a British imperialist and an Irish republican

Childers made powerful enemies on the pro-Treaty side of the Civil War

Book released on ‘forgotten’ men and women of Anglo-Irish Treaty negotiations

Book details the lives of 70 people bound up in the talks

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What did David Lloyd George mean by ‘immediate and terrible war’?

British prime minister’s threat is phrase most associated with Anglo-Irish Treaty talks

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Michael Collins dismissed death threat three days before he was shot

Papers of Diarmaid Fawsitt, economic adviser to Robert Barton, found in west Cork

Who was who during the Treaty negotiations

Michael Collins and Winston Churchill just two of the famous names among delegations

One hundred years ago: The last person to die in the War of Independence

Hannah Carey was shot dead outside the Imperial Hotel in Killarney on July 11th, 1921

The Treaty negotiations: a story of trust forged and trust broken

Did Lloyd George mesmerise Collins, or did Collins silently acquiesce to his pressure tactics?

Anglo-Irish Treaty signatories: who’s who on both sides

Claim of British trickery in Anglo-Irish Treaty talks ‘debunked’ by memo

Allegations of secret dealings by Arthur Griffith are false, says biographer

Truce and Treaty: Why did de Valera not lead the delegation sent to London?

A mistake, cowardice or duplicity – historical opinion is divided

‘The zeal of the convert’ – An Irishman’s Diary on Erskine Childers

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Parnell and now Michael Collins – What’s with Tory Brexiteers quoting Irish heroes?

What was Collins’s ‘freedom to achieve freedom’ speech all about?

Erskine Childers executed over possession of a pistol

The Wicklow files: Free State government had little to pin on high-profile anti-Treaty leader but was desperate to get rid of him