“I am a birth, domicile, and deliberate choice of citizenship an Irishman…”

—  Robert Erskine Childers

His own words from his last military trial on 17 November 1922, cited in The Freeman's Journal Newspaper, 27 November 1922.
Literary Years and War (1900-1918), Last Years: Ireland (1919-1922)

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