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. 2/2

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A wanted poster for Dan Breen.

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. 1/2

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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. 2/2

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