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Originally Posted by lilac_jive
Well you can't say that and not tell us what happened  |
The author of
Riddle of the Sands, Erskine Childers, was a former British army officer who became a fanatical Irish Republican, so extreme in his views that he ended up "wanted" by
both sides in the 1922 Irish civil war. He was arrested, tried by a military court on a trumped-up charge of possessing an illegal firearm, and executed by firing squad.