DiscoverThe Last Word with Matt CooperThink You Know The Presidents? Erskine Childers
Think You Know The Presidents? Erskine Childers

Think You Know The Presidents? Erskine Childers

Update: 2025-10-07
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Erskine Childer's presidency is something of a tragic tale which begins with his revolutionary father who was executed in 1922, while his then 16 year old son was taken out of his British boarding school to say goodbye.

But why did Childer's father's dark secrets haunt him?

And how did his wife nearly become his successor?

In this second episode of Think You Know...The Presidents, Lise Hand and Flor MacCarthy, jump on board what was Ireland's first presidential bus called the 'Wanderly Wagon' to find out what shaped Childers' presidency.

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Think You Know The Presidents? Erskine Childers

Think You Know The Presidents? Erskine Childers