Dan Breen of the Third Tipperary Brigade tells how he trained as a Volunteer, joined the ambush at Soloheadbeg in January 1919 that opened the War of Independence, went on the run, and fought alongside Michael Collins’s men in Dublin. The 1924 memoir is plain, partisan and full of names, safe houses and narrow escapes.
One of the most famous first-hand accounts of the Irish revolution, by a participant who never softened his story. Download the free EPUB.