Soon after Erskine Childers was executed in 1922, Éamon de Valera gave President Childers (then 17) this portrait.
Soon after Erskine Childers was executed in 1922, Éamon de Valera gave President Childers (then 17) this portrait. It was cherished by him, and the political mentorship between the two men began; continuing throughout their lives in public service, ending with the former succeeding de Valera at the Áras.
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