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Daniel Breen (11 August 1894 – 27 December 1969) was an Irish republican. He was member of the Irish Republican Army during the Irish War of Independence and the Irish Civil War. In later years he was a Fianna Fáil politician.
Breen was born in Grange, Donohill parish, County Tipperary. His father died when Breen was six, leaving the family very poor.
He was educated locally, before becoming a plasterer and later a linesman on the Great Southern Railways.
Breen was sworn into the Irish Republican Brotherhood in 1912 and the Irish Volunteers in 1914. On 21 January 1919, the day the First Dáil met in Dublin, Breen – who described himself as "a soldier first and foremost" – took part in the Soloheadbeg ambush. The ambush party of eight men, led by Séumas Robinson, attacked two Royal Irish Constabulary men who were escorting explosives to a quarry. The two policemen, James McDonnell and Patrick O'Connell, were fatally shot during the incident. The ambush is considered to be the first incident of the Irish War of Independence and was carried out with the help of intelligence supplied by Breen's younger brother Laurence ("Lar").
Breen later recalled:
"… we took the action deliberately, having thought over the matter and talked it over between us. [Seán] Treacy had stated to me that the only way of starting a war was to kill someone, and we wanted to start a war, so we intended to kill some of the police whom we looked upon as the foremost and most important branch of the enemy forces ... The only regret that we had following the ambush was that there were only two policemen in it, instead of the six we had expected …"
However, Robinson, wrote:
"It was laid down as an order that if only two RIC should accompany the cart they were to be challenged, but if there were six of them they were to be met with a volley as the cart reached the gate. The reason for the difference was that there would be so little danger to us if only two appeared that it would be inhuman not to give them an opportunity of surrendering, but if six police turned up they, with their rifles, would be too great a danger to the eight of us to take any such risk as to challenge them and thus hand over our initiative. We had only one Winchester Repeater rifle and an agglomeration of small-arms."
Dan Breen
Daniel Breen (11 August 1894 – 27 December 1969) was an Irish republican. He was member of the Irish Republican Army during the Irish War of Independence and the Irish Civil War. In later years he was a Fianna Fáil politician.
Breen was born in Grange, Donohill parish, County Tipperary. His father died when Breen was six, leaving the family very poor.
He was educated locally, before becoming a plasterer and later a linesman on the Great Southern Railways.
Breen was sworn into the Irish Republican Brotherhood in 1912 and the Irish Volunteers in 1914. On 21 January 1919, the day the First Dáil met in Dublin, Breen – who described himself as "a soldier first and foremost" – took part in the Soloheadbeg ambush. The ambush party of eight men, led by Séumas Robinson, attacked two Royal Irish Constabulary men who were escorting explosives to a quarry. The two policemen, James McDonnell and Patrick O'Connell, were fatally shot during the incident. The ambush is considered to be the first incident of the Irish War of Independence and was carried out with the help of intelligence supplied by Breen's younger brother Laurence ("Lar").
Breen later recalled:
"… we took the action deliberately, having thought over the matter and talked it over between us. [Seán] Treacy had stated to me that the only way of starting a war was to kill someone, and we wanted to start a war, so we intended to kill some of the police whom we looked upon as the foremost and most important branch of the enemy forces ... The only regret that we had following the ambush was that there were only two policemen in it, instead of the six we had expected …"
However, Robinson, wrote:
"It was laid down as an order that if only two RIC should accompany the cart they were to be challenged, but if there were six of them they were to be met with a volley as the cart reached the gate. The reason for the difference was that there would be so little danger to us if only two appeared that it would be inhuman not to give them an opportunity of surrendering, but if six police turned up they, with their rifles, would be too great a danger to the eight of us to take any such risk as to challenge them and thus hand over our initiative. We had only one Winchester Repeater rifle and an agglomeration of small-arms."
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