Vacancies in the presidency have occurred three times: on the death of Erskine Hamilton Childers in 1974, and on the resignations of Cearbhall Ó Dálaigh in 1976 and Mary Robinson in 1997.

Inauguration of Erskine Hamilton Childers | Erskine Childers as President of Ireland.

* November 17 – Erskine Hamilton Childers, 4th President of Ireland ( b. 1905 )

President Erskine Hamilton Childers ' lying-in-state took place there in November 1974, as did that of former President Éamon de Valera in September 1975.

The funerals of two Irish presidents, Douglas Hyde and Erskine Hamilton Childers, took place there in 1949 and 1974 respectively.

Erskine made it possible for him to travel to Rome ( 1764 ), where he remained until 1777, studying under Gavin Hamilton and copying the old masters.

The first ( only the second time in the history of the creation of the office in 1937 ) followed the death of Erskine Hamilton Childers.

* Erskine Hamilton Childers ( 1905 – 1974 ), Fianna Fáil minister who became President of Ireland, son of the above

Probably the best known students to pass under his tutelage are Michael Brecker, Randy Brecker, Peter Erskine, Jim Beard, Chris Botti, Jeff Hamilton, and the jazz-education mogul Jamey Aebersold.

He was the son of British Orientalist scholar Robert Caesar Childers ; the cousin of Hugh Childers and Robert Barton ; and the father of the fourth President of Ireland, Erskine Hamilton Childers.

He also obtained a promise from his then 16-year-old son, the future President Erskine Hamilton Childers, to seek out and shake the hand of every man who had signed his father's death warrant.

Thus, in 1972 Erskine Hamilton Childers started the process of finding an official biographer.

He was the father of Irish nationalist Robert Erskine Childers and grandfather to the fourth President of Ireland, Erskine Hamilton Childers.

Erskine Hamilton Childers, President of the Irish Republic and son of the IRA man Robert Erskine Childers, stayed in the house periodically with the owners his friends, the Bridges-Adams family in the 1970s.

* Erskine Hamilton Childers ( 1905 – 1974 ), 4th President of Ireland ( 1973 – 74 )

Margaret " Rita " Childers ( née Dudley ) ( February 1915 – 9 May 2010 ) was the second wife of Erskine Hamilton Childers, the fourth President of Ireland ( 1973 – 1974 ).

The couple's mixed marriage ( Erskine Hamilton Childers was an Anglican, she a Roman Catholic ) caused some controversy ; the then Roman Catholic Archbishop of Dublin, John Charles McQuaid tried to discourage them from marrying.

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Inauguration of Erskine Hamilton Childers as President of Ireland in June 1973.

* 1922 – Author and Irish Republican Army member Robert Erskine Childers is executed by an Irish Free State firing squad for illegally carrying a revolver.

In Britain, the term " spy novel " was defined by The Riddle of the Sands ( 1903 ) by Robert Erskine Childers.

* Robert Erskine Childers

* November 24 – Popular author and Irish Republican Army member Robert Erskine Childers is executed by an Irish Free State firing squad for illegally carrying a revolver.

* November 24 – Robert Erskine Childers, Irish novelist and nationalist ( executed ) ( b. 1870 )

In all 77 republicans were executed by the Free State between November 1922 and the end of the war in May 1923, including Robert Erskine Childers, Liam Mellowes and Rory O ' Connor, far more than the 14 IRA Volunteers the British executed in the War of Independence.

The German part of the Wadden Sea was the setting for the 1903 Erskine Childers novel The Riddle of the Sands.

The school's former students ( Old Greshamians ) include Benjamin Britten, W. H. Auden, Lord Reith, Sir Alan Lloyd Hodgkin, President Erskine Childers, Sir Christopher Cockerell, Donald Maclean, Sir Lennox Berkeley, Sir Stephen Spender, Tom Wintringham, Sir James Dyson, Ralph Firman, Sir Peter Brook, Sebastian Shaw, Sienna Guillory and Michael Cummings.

However, Fianna Fáil's Erskine H. Childers went on to win the presidential election.

They were opposed by those described as the " doves " of the cabinet ; Tánaiste Erskine Childers, George Colley and Patrick Hillery.

He had finally gained complete control of the party, having neutralized his rivals for leadership during the Arms Crisis, and initiated Fianna Fáil's electoral comeback by securing the election of its candidate, Erskine H. Childers, as President of Ireland in 1973, defeating the odds-on favourite, the National Coalition's Tom O ' Higgins.

It suffered an early electoral defeat in the 1973 presidential election, when Fine Gael candidate Tom O ' Higgins was defeated by the Fianna Fáil candidate, Erskine H. Childers, who became President of Ireland.

Erskine Childers had sought the presidency with promises of making the office more open and hands-on, in particular with plans to create a think tank within Aras an Uachtarain to develop an outline for Ireland's future.

Éamon de Valera, by now Leader of the Opposition also did not attend, being represented by a senior Fianna Fáil figure who was a member of the Church of Ireland, Erskine Childers, a future President of Ireland himself.

His father Robert Erskine Childers, a leading Irish Republican and author of the espionage thriller The Riddle of the Sands, was executed during the Irish Civil War.

Although also born in England, his father, Robert Erskine Childers, had had an Irish mother and had been raised by an uncle in County Wicklow, and after the First World War took his family to live there.

Robert Erskine Childers and his wife, Mary, later emerged as prominent and outspoken Irish Republican opponents of the political settlement with Britain which resulted in the establishment of the Irish Free State.

* April 11 – Erskine Caldwell, novelist

Erskine Preston Caldwell ( December 17, 1903 – April 11, 1987 ) was an American author.

Percy Erskine Nobbs ( August 11, 1875 – November 5, 1964 ) was a Canadian architect who was born in Haddington, Scotland and trained in the United Kingdom.

He married Catherine Lawyer ( 1787 – 1865 ), and their children were James Madison Bouck, Joseph William Bouck ( b. Oct. 27, 1809 ), Christian Bouck ( b. May 14, 1818 ), Gabriel Bouck, Charles Bouck ( b. Sept. 9, 1829 ), Catherine Bouck ( b. July 11, 1820 ; married Erskine Danforth ), Caroline Bouck ( married Dr. Volney Danforth ), and Anna Bouck ( b. Dec. 29, 1814 ; married Lyman Sanford ).

Erskine Ramsay Hawkins ( July 26, 1914 – November 11, 1993 ) was an American trumpet player and big band leader from Birmingham, Alabama, dubbed " The 20th Century Gabriel ".

* Thomas Erskine, 9th Earl of Kellie 11 June 1824 – 6 February 1828