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Dan Breen was one of the men behind the Soloheadbeg ambush
in Co. Tipperary, 21 January 1919, in which
two Irish constables of the RIC were killed.
It marked the start of the Anglo-Irish war.
IRA: Tipperary Flying Column
IRA: Mayo Flying Column
These men ‘defied six hundred British troops at Tourmakeady’ according to An t-Óglach.
They lost one man and six shotguns in this famous battle.
IRA: Mid-
Clare
Brigade
‘Men of
the West’
Sean
Keating
1915
‘Men of the South’, Sean Keating, 1920
Distributed weekly to all units Mixing encouragement
of the IRA, delivered hidden with practical advice, it
in flour sacks, furniture often make up with
packing cases and many fighting words for a lack
other disguises. of activity in the field.
Black & Tans
Recruiting poster
1920
Come out ye Black and Tans
Stephen Behan
Come let us hear you tell how you slandered great Parnell The day is come fast and the times are here at last
When you thought him well and truly persecuted As each English Shoneen he will run before us
Where are the sneers and jeers that you loudly let us hear And if there be a need, our kids will say ‘God speed’
When our leaders of sixteen were executed With a bar or two of Stephen Behan’s Chorus
Chorus Chorus
Chorus
First Black & Tans
being inspected by
an RIC officer at
Beggars Bush
barracks, Dublin,
25 March 1920
(By Order)
Black and Tans
Irish Republican Army Order, 30 March 1920, five
days after the arrival of the first English recruits to
Black & Tans notice, September 1920
the Royal Irish Constabulary.
Templemore, Tipperary.
This town was set on fire as a reprisal by both the Black & Tans, August 1920, after the assassination of a District Inspector, and
the military, October 1920, after an ambush. On the latter occasion the Black & Tans restrained the troops were publicly thanked
by the local council, whose offices they had burned two months earlier.
IRA attack
Upper Church Street, Dublin 20
September 1920.
Chorus Chorus
So here’s to the boys of Kilmichael,
Those brave men so gallant and true The lorries were ours before twilight
Who fought ‘neath the green flag of Erin, And high over Dunmanway town
To conquer the red, white and blue Our banners in triumph were waving,
To show that the Tans had gone down
On the 28th day of November, We gathered their rifles and bayonets,
The Tans left the town of Macroom And then left the glen so obscure
They were armed in two Crossley tenders, And never drew reins till we halted,
Which led them right to their doom At the faraway camp of Glenure
They were on their way to Dunmanway,
Who never expected to stall Chorus
When they met with the boys of the column,
Which made a clean sweep of them all
Chorus
British administration under siege, winter 1920.
Barricade and barbed wire entanglements made Dublin Castle almost a beleaguered fortress.
Officials were unable to stir abroad without an armed escort.
The ‘Cairo Gang’, so called because of their Middle Eastern
experience, some of them were among the 12 British intelligence
officers assassinated by Michael Collins’s ‘squad’ on the morning
of 21 November 1921.
The numbers refer to the names on the back, where Nos 1, 2 and
3 are marked as being Irish.