Court martial of Erskine Childers begins
Robert Erskine Childers DSC (25 June 1870 – 24 November 1922), usually known as Erskine Childers, was an English-born Irish nationalist who established himself as a writer with accounts of the Second Boer War, a novel The Riddle of the Sands about German preparations for a sea-borne invasion of England, and proposals for achieving Irish independence. He took part in the Irish Civil War and was executed by the authorities of the Irish Free State.
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The Irish Free State begins the executions of seventy seven anti Treaty republican prisoners
The first four executions occurred a month after most Republicans had rejected the amnesty that expired in mid-October 1922.
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