Daniel Breen was an Irish republican fighter and a Fianna Fáil politician. Dan Breen was born into a farming family in Grange, Donohill, County Tipperary. He was educated locally before becoming a plasterer, and later a linesman on the Great Southern Railway. Breen joined the Irish Volunteers in 1914. On January 21, 1919, the day the First Dáil met in Dublin, Breen took part in an ambush at Soloheadbeg. Wikipedia
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