On April 14, NYU's
Glucksman Ireland House will celebrate the
Haycraft-Queen Cornerstone work
The Riddle of the Sands (1903)
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Simon MacCorkindale, left, and
Michael York in The Riddle of the
Sands (dir. Tony Maylam, 1979). |
by Erskine Childers (who ran guns before the 1916 Easter Rising and was executed in 1922 during the Irish civil war; his son later became president of Ireland). Penguin has reissued this tale of espionage. Childers's great-grandson, also named Erskine Childers, will read from his relative's work.
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