Childers found a small automatic pistol in 1995, which had belonged to her husband. It was the possession of this weapon by her father-in-law, Robert Erskine Childers, that led to his trial and execution in 1922. The weapon had been given to Childers by Michael Collins. Childers presented to pistol to the Defence Forces and it is now held in the National Museum of Ireland, Collins Barracks.
