Princeton University is set to present a lecture by writer and historian Erskine Childers on March 28 at 4:30 p.m.
Childers’ lecture entitled “The Riddle of Erskine Childers” will focus on his great-grandfather, Robert Erskine Childers, a major figure in the Irish revolution.
The elder Childers was a writer and political activist born in London. He served in both the Boer War and World War I before settling in Ireland in 1919.
He used his own yacht, the Asgard, to supply arms to the Irish volunteers at Howth in 1914. In 1921 he was appointed director of publicity for the Irish Republican Army and in 1922 he was court-martialled for possession of a revolver and executed by a Free State firing squad.
The lecture, part of a series presented by the university’s Fund for Irish Studies, is free and open to the public.
It will take place at the Lewis Center for the Arts’ James M. Stewart ‘32 Theater located at 185 Nassau Street, Princeton.
More information is online at fis.princeton.edu or arts.princeton.edu.
