Dublin, 7 April 1920 - The women and children of Ireland have silently borne the suffering incurred as a result of the heavy-handedness of British military rule, according to Erskine Childers.

E ver since Erskine Childers’s 1903 novel The Riddle of the Sands urged the British government to treat Germany, not France, as the leading threat of the new century, thrillers have often been ...