The Irish War of Independence began on 21 January 1919. Sinn Féin TDs assembled in Dublin, forming the First Dáil and issuing the Irish Declaration of Independence. On the same day the Soloheadbeg ambush took place. IRA volunteers of the 3rd Tipperary Brigade led by Séumas Robinson and including Seán Treacy and Dan Breen, acting on their own initiative, ambushed and killed two RIC officers at Soloheadbeg, County Tipperary.

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Dan Breen died on 27th December 1969. His father died when he was six, leaving the family very poor. He was an IRA leader during the War of Independence and the Civil War. Breen was born in Grange, Donohill parish, County Tipperary. In January 1927, he became the first anti-Treaty TD to take the Oath of Allegiance and sit in the Dáil Éireann after the establishment of the Irish Free State.

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