Molly Childers

Molly Childers
Born
Mary Alden Osgood

(1875-12-14)14 December 1875
Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.
Died1 January 1964(1964-01-01) (aged 88)
Sandymount, Dublin, Ireland
Resting placeRoundwood, County Wicklow, Ireland
Nationality
  • United States
  • Ireland
Alma materUniversity of Nottingham
Spouse
(m. 1904; died 1922)
Children3, including Erskine Hamilton Childers
Parents
Relatives

Mary Alden Childers MBE (née Osgood; 14 December 1875 – 1 January 1964), known as Molly Childers, was an American-born Irish writer and nationalist.[1] A daughter of Dr Hamilton Osgood and Margaret Cushing Osgood of Beacon Hill, Boston, Massachusetts, her older sister was Gretchen Warren. She married fellow Irish writer and nationalist, Erskine Childers. Their son, Erskine Hamilton Childers, became the fourth President of Ireland.

  1. ^ Trinity College Cambridge. "Childers, Mary Alden Osgood (1875-1964) American born writer and Irish nationalist". archives.trin.cam.ac.uk.