4.6K views · 104 reactions | Daniel “Dan” Breen was a volunteer in the Irish Republican Army during the Irish War of Independence and the Irish Civil War. Breen was born in Grange, Donohill parish, South Tipperary. | Irish Ballads | Facebook

Bloody Sunday, 21st November 1920 In 1920 the War of Independence was ongoing in Ireland. On the morning of November 21st, an elite assassination unit known as ‘The Squad’ mounted an operation planned by Michael Collins, Director of Intelligence of the Irish Republican Army (IRA). Their orders were clear – they were to take out the backbone of the British Intelligence network in Ireland, specifically a group of officers known as ‘The Cairo Gang’. The shootings took place in and around Dublin’s s