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His name was Erskine Childers and he had one goal: to ensure the collapse of the Irish nation into anarchy. Well, that was what the government said. In autumn 1922 both the Dáil and the press were filled with stories of Childers leading the anti-Treaty war on the state. Yet there was one problem with those stories – most of them were false.
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