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Born | Mary Alden Osgood 14 December 1875 Boston, Massachusetts, U.S. |
Died | 1 January 1964 Sandymount, Dublin, Ireland | (aged 88)
Resting place | Roundwood, County Wicklow, Ireland |
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Alma mater | University of Nottingham |
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Children | 3, including Erskine Hamilton Childers |
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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.