Nine <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_Republican_Army" id="mwmA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Irish Republican Army">Irish Republican Army</a> members are <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executions_during_the_Irish_Civil_War#The_first_executions_and_reprisals" id="mwmQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Executions during the Irish Civil War">executed</a> by an <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_Free_State" id="mwmg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Irish Free State">Irish Free State</a> firing squad. Among them is author <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erskine_Childers_(author)" id="mwmw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Erskine Childers (author)">Erskine Childers</a>, who had been arrested for illegally carrying a revolver.