My Fight For Irish Freedom

Posted on 06 August 2017 by Dan Breen

In 1919 a group of young men barely out of their teens, poorly armed, with no money and little training, renewed the fight, begun in 1916, to drive the British out of Ireland Dan Breen was to become the best known of them At first they were condemed on all sides They became outlaws and My Fight describes graphically what life was like on the run, with an army at one s heels and a thousand pounds on one s head A burning belief in their cause sustained them through many a dark and bitter day and slowly support came from the people. Read My Fight For Irish Freedom – kino-fada.fr Along with Tom Barry s GUERILLA DAYS, one of the best accounts of the Irish Revolution by a major participant The post script written by Breen decades later is heart breaking, as he stands at the grave of Sean Treacy who died in a hail of...A personal account of the Irish War of Independence and the following Civil War The author s fast paced narrative leaves the reader wanting forIt was really interesting to read a colourful first hand account of these pivotal events that helped shape the early Irish nation.A riveting read In this personal memoir, Dan Breen gives a thrilling first hand account of war in all its beautiful tragedy His direct and rather active style of writing walking the reader through the events as if they were happening in the very much here and now lends to an abundance of excitement, tension and drama for the reader Most interesting on a personal level was the mindset shift among the Irish people between 1919 and 1921, and how by the end of those few years the national tid A riveting read In this personal memoir, Dan Breen gives a thrilling first hand account of war in all its beautiful tragedy His direct and rather active style of writing walking the reader through the events as if they were happening in the very much here and now lends to an abundance of excitement, tension and drama for the reader Most interesting on a personal level was the mindset shift among the Irish people between 1919 and 1921, and how by the end of those few years the national tide had got behind the Irish republicans and their fight for freedom in 1919, as Breen freely admits, they were not the most welcomed by their own people owing to their armed approach Breen s ideology, being staunchly nationalistic and republican, naturally results in his discourse taking on a strict anti British, anti imperialist tone especially when referring to the cut throat band of questionable British reinforcements known as the Black and Tans but he does well to distance himself emotionally an...It s now 99 years since the Soloheadbeg attack that marked the beginning of the War of Independence On the same day as the First Dail sat in Dublin, abstaining from the British parliament, Dan Breen and the boys from Tipperary fires the first shots in the fight for independence The book reads like a movie with the hero always managing to shoot his way out of a tight spot and getting shot so many times you wonder how he survives.Breen is straight forward and frank in his account The killing of It s now 99 years since the Soloheadbeg attack that marked the beginning of the War of Independence On the same day as the First Dail sat in Dublin, abstaining from the British parliament, Dan Breen and the boys from Tippera...Pacy and engaging memoir of one of the leaders of the IRA in its struggle against Britain and then the government of the Free State Should be taken with a huge pinch of salt, but quite revealing on how conditional the support of the Irish public was and how most of the IRA s opponents w...re read this book this year as it s the centenary of Soloheadbeg and the start of the war of independence.Breen s account is a highly readable account of the war as he remembered it, written in it s initiate aftermath, the last few chapters are rather brief as Breen largely glosses over the civil war aside from paying tribute to his fallen comrades.Like all autobiographies Breen s account is subjective, he no doubt plays down Seamus Robinsons role in the IRA in Tipperary he also doesn t name all re read this book this year as it s the centenary of Soloheadbeg and the start of the war of independence.Breen s account is a highly readable account of the war as he remembered it, written in it s initiate aftermath, the last few chapters are rather brief as Breen largely glosses over the civil war aside from paying tribute to his fallen comrades.Like all autobiographies Breen s...Dan Breen was one of the band who fired the shot heard round the world at Soloheadbeg the opening salvo of Ireland s War of Independence book is action packed extraordinarily well written If you ve read a lot of books on the period or none, this is a rare, unique, up close in your face view of the war on the ground, and life on the run, f...Its a memoir, so its hard to hold it to literary standards But I found his writing style to be atrocious.I m not going to comment on the content other than mention that its an important book for any historian of the war of Independence The amount of memoirs which emerged after that war And which, cu...We refused to leave Ireland We told them that we were not afraid to die, but would prefer to live for Ireland Irelands fight would have to be made by Irishmen on the hills and on the highways in Ireland not with printers ink in America or in another country arms were not lacking but of what use, we asked ourselves, are men who are toysoldiers Of what use are guns that have been oiled and cleaned but never fired We refused to leave Ireland We told them that we were not afraid to die, but would prefer to live for Ireland Ireland s fight would have to be made by Irishmen on the hills and on the highways in Ireland not with printer s ink in America or in another country arms were not...Easy read painting picture of life on the run for IRA man in early 20 th century

English
06 August 2017

Dan Breen