Militaria Archive
Glasnevin Cemetery, Dublin, Ireland
The graves of many key figures in the struggle for Irish Independence through several centuries. Including Daniel O’ Connell, Michael Collins, Charles Stewart Parnell, Éamon de Valera, Arthur Griffith, Countess Markievicz, Michael Cusack, Robert Erskine Childers, Roger Casement, Frank Ryan, Sean Devoy, Cathal Brugha, James Stephens along with many Dublin Brigade Irish Republican Army veterans of the Easter Rising 1916, the Irish War of Independence (1919 - 1921) and Irish Civil War (1921 - 1923).
Erskine Childers (25 June 1870 – 24 November 1922), British Army boer War veteran, smuggled weapons to Irish Volunteers from Germany. Recieved his WW1 British Army comission whilst an Irish Volunteer. Winner of D.S.C at Gallipoli and author of 'The Riddle of the Sands' and father of Irish President Erskine Hamilton Childers. Executed during the Irish Civil War by Pro-treaty forces for possession of a handgun (given to him by Michael Collins). Glasnevin Cemetery, Dublin, Ireland.
