What is recorded here
Molly Childers died in Sandymount, County Dublin, on 1 January 1964. She spent her final decades in Ireland after marrying Erskine Childers, becoming the mother of Erskine Hamilton Childers and a persistent presence in Irish national life. Her American birth, disabled body and Irish commitment collided in one woman, giving Sandymount a strange transatlantic memory.
Why this person is known: Irish writer
- Place of death
- Sandymount
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