Dan Breen and the IRA
by Ambrose, Joe
Dan Breen was sometimes known as the 'Thug with Blood on His Hands' because of his involvement in the ambush and killing of two RIC policemen at Soloheadbeg - a political and historical controversy widely regarded as the act that started the War of Independence. Alongside his comrades in the Third Tipperary Brigade of the IRA, Dan Breen became one of the most infamous and controversial IRA leaders of his generation. With the Civil War over, Breen went to prohibition America, and ran a speakeasy…
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Dan Breen was sometimes known as the 'Thug with Blood on His Hands' because of his involvement in the ambush and killing of two RIC policemen at Soloheadbeg - a political and historical controversy widely regarded as the act that started the War of Independence. Alongside his comrades in the Third Tipperary Brigade of the IRA, Dan Breen became one of the most infamous and controversial IRA leaders of his generation. With the Civil War over, Breen went to prohibition America, and ran a speakeasy. He returned to Ireland to become a politician, and was the first Republican to enter the Free St.
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- Publication Date:©2006.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Mercier Press
- Place of Publication:Douglas Village, Cork
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©2006.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (223 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : : illustrations
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781856358484, 1856358488
- oclc:ocn891547503
- LC Classification:DA965.B7
- Dewey Decimal:941.5082
Table of Contents
Introduction; 1 -- Seán Treacy and Dan Breen; 2 -- Eamon O'Duibhir and Pierce McCan; 3 -- Séamus Robinson arrives in Tipperary, 1917-19; 4 -- Ireland Under a Microscope -- Militant Attitudes Towards the RIC; 5 -- Soloheadbeg; 6 -- Soloheadbeg: Reactions and Consequences; 7 -- Gelignite; 8 -- The Knocklong Rescue; 9 -- Knocklong, the Aftermath; 10 -- The Big Four Head to Dublin; 11 -- Ambushing Lord French; 12 -- Attacks on Barracks; 13 -- The Noose Tightens: Fernside and the Death of Seán Treacy; 14 -- Ending the Tan War; 15 -- The Truce; 16 -- The Civil War; 17 -- Fianna Fáil Inc.
18 -- Séamus Robinson's Fight for Irish Freedom19 -- A Lion in Winter; Appendix 1 -- Third Tipperary Brigade anti-Treaty Proclamation; Appendix 2 -- The Galtee Mountain Boy; Appendix 3 -- Dan Breen's 1927 Policy Statement; Appendix 4 -- George Bernard Shaw's Letter to Dan Breen; Sources by Chapter; Glossary; Bibliography; Acknowledgements.
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