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In 1921 Childers was elected to the Dail Eireann as TD for County Wicklow; in March that year he was appointed Dail Minister for Publicity and editor of the Irish Bulletin, a republican newsletter.
A principal secretary in the Irish peace delegation to London in late 1921 Childers himself strongly opposed the terms of the proposed treaty.
An appeal pending in the High Court, Childers was nonetheless executed by firing squad in Portobello Barracks on 24 November 1922.
But while Childers, at least at this early juncture, never openly questioned the rectitude of British imperialist attitudes, it is entirely possible that his conversations with Boer prisoners first led him to ponder the fundamental dichotomy between his own love of freedom and the nature of empire (Knight xi).
Childers aligned himself with the Irish in the south and, due to his convictions, even engaged in a bit of gun running for the Irish Volunteers.
Childers was armed with the ivory handled, miniature.32 calibre Spanish automatic pistol presented to him by Michael Collins, but did not fire, fearing that some of the non-combatants in the house might be injured.
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