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From the NS archive: The execution of Erskine Childers

2 December 1922: Why I would not sign the petition to save my friend from the firing squad.

By Desmond MacCarthy

From the NS archive: The execution of Erskine Childers

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From the NS archive: August the Fourth

8 August 1914: Why did a declaration of war make people in a way unusually happy?

By Desmond MacCarthy

From the archive: Desmond MacCarthy’s diary “August the Fourth” on the outbreak of the First World War

The Bloomsbury-group writer and critic describing the night the First World War began for Britain, observes the madness in…

By Desmond MacCarthy

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