Military Rule in Ireland

Erskine Childers

Military Rule in Ireland

Dublin

The Talbot Press

1920

This pamphlet details the British army’s violent actions in Ireland during the War of Independence. Childers, an ardent Irish nationalist, was the best-selling author of the seminal spy thriller The Riddle of the Sands, a British military officer who had fought in the Boer War and World War I, secretary of the Irish delegation that agreed to the Anglo-Irish Treaty in late 1921, and ultimately a leader of the anti-Treaty forces during the Irish Civil War that started in June 1922. Hauling a printing press around the Irish countryside to put out an insurgent newspaper, he was captured by the Irish Free State forces and executed in November 1922. His son became the fourth President of Ireland in 1973 after a long political career.