Remember All Those Brave Men & Women Who Have Fought For Irelands Freedom.
Hello,
I have a big interest in Irish History so i decided to set up this website.
Lots of men and women in Ireland have fought for and died for the freedom of our country from the British invaders, they wanted a united Ireland. We cant let the scarfices of what our volunteers have done be forgotten.
I have liked history ever since i did history in school, we had a great teacher called James O Donoghue who died shortly after i left school RIP.
The first book i was told to read by him because i was from west tipperary was Dan Breen's My Fight For Irish Freedom its my favourite book and well worth the read. Dan Breen is a hero of mine and i respect what he had to do in his life.
If you have any pictures or documents that might be of relevance i would greatly appreciate if you could email them to me
Rebel Hearts
My favourite band who sing the songs and tell the stories of Irelands fight for freedom and the pursuit of our vision of a united Ireland are a local band from Tipperary called the Rebel Hearts the band consists of 5 lads from parishes in tipperary. Liam Coen, Paudie Coen, Jamie Mockler, Tom Doran And Paudie Skehan
Love going to listen to the lads who play with such passion for the songs. They are some of the best musicians and singers out there.
For Upcomming Gigs or to book them Visit there website www.rebelhearts.ie
Liam Coen From The Rebel Hearts Song Culture Writen By Him, Recorded By Rebel Hearts Feb 2011
A song really appropriate at the current time In Ireland
A True Legend Of Tipperary
Dan Breen
[1894-1969]
Dan Breen was born near Soloheadbeg, County Tipperary. He was educated locally and became a plasterer before becoming a linesman on the Great Southern and Western Railway.
Breen joined the Irish Volunteers in 1914 but did not partake in the 1916 Rising.
On January 21st, 1919 he partook in the first engagement of the War of Independence, an ambush of explosives in Soloheadbeg, afterwhich a bounty of £10,000 was put on his capture. Breen went 'on the run' and, in 1920, he shot his way out of a police seige in Dublin and escaped with twenty-two bullet wounds.
Breen opposed the 1921 Anglo-Irish Treaty and continued to fight on the republican side during the Civil War. In 1923 Breen, then Commandant General of the 3rd Tipperary Brigade of the IRA, was captured by Free State soldiers in the Glen of Aherlow and imprisoned in Limerick and Mountjoy Gaols where he under went a 12 day hunger-strike and a 6 day thirst strike before being released in 1924.
Breen was elected to the Dáil while in prison but did not take up his seat until 1927 and lost his seat in the General Election of that year.
Breen emigrated to America and returned to Ireland in 1932 when he was elected to the Dáil as Fianna Fáil Deputy for Tipperary. Breen retained his Dáil seat until his retirement in 1965.
This extract is from Breen's popular autobiography
A member of the Soloheadbeg ambush party,
Hogan was arrested on 12 May 1919
The three others (Treacy,
Breen and Seamus Robinson) were joined by five men from IRA East Limerick Brigade
(Ned Foley, Sean Lynch, John Joe O'Brien, Ned O'Brien, Jim Scanlon)
in order to organise Hogan's rescue.
Hogan was being transported by train to Cork on 13 May 1919,
and the men, lead by Treacy, boarded the train in Knocklong.
A close-range shoot-out followed on the train.
Treacy and Breen were seriously wounded in the gun fight, two policemen died,
but Hogan was rescued.
He was spirited away to Knocklong village where his handcuffs were cleaved by Sean Lynch,
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He Was One Of The Most Wanted Men In The Country By The British At The Time.
The Price On His Head Was Also Raised To £10,000 After The Soloheadbeg Ambush
Song Title: The Galtee Mountain Boy
Lyrics by: Christy Moore and Patsy Halloran Recorded by: Rebel Hearts, Sean La, Christy Moore, Athenry, The Pilgrims, Paddy Rielly, Sláinte,
The Spirit of Freedom,
The Wolfe Tones
I joined the Flying Column in 1916
In Cork with Sean Moylan, Tipperary with Dan Breen
Arrested by Free Staters and sentenced for to die
Farewell to Tipperary said the Galtee Mountain Boy
We crossed pleasant valleys and over the hilltops green
Where we met with Dinny Lacey, Sean Hogan and Dan Breen
Sean Moylan and his gallant band they kept the flag flying high
Farewell to Tipperary said the Galtee Mountain Boy
We crossed the Dublin mountains we were rebels on the run
Though hunted night and morning we were outlawed but free men
We tracked the Wicklow mountains as the sun was shining high
Farewell to Tipperary said the Galtee Mountain Boy
I'm bidding farewell to old Clonmel that I never more will see
And to the Galtee mountains that oft times sheltered me
To the men who fought for liberty and died without a sigh
May the cause be ne'er forgotten said the Galtee Mountain Boy
Poem/Song Title: Tipperary Far Away/Tipperary So Far Away
Info: This Is A Poem About The Great Sean Treacy also turned into a Song.
Different Versions exist with slightly different wording. My Favourite version is
that by the Rebel Hearts Recorded by: Rebel Hearts, Wolfe Tones, Brian Corrigan Erins Own
The moon shone in Talbot Street
Where a dying rebel lay,
His arms were crossed and his body was streched,
And his life blood flowed away.
A passing comrade heard his moans
And the sufferer soon was found
He gently raised his aching head,
Up from the cold damp ground.
"Softly, gently, Comrade," he cried,
"No longer on earth must I stay,
I will never more roam to my own native
In Tipperary far away".
"A lock of my hair I pray you take,
To my mother so far away,
And so as she will gaze on it,
She fondly will think of me".
"Tell her its down by the Liffeyside,
My mouldering bones do lay,
There's a vision of light, before me to-night
In Tipperary far away".
His comrades gathered round him,
To bid him his last farewell,
He was as brave a young soldier
As ever in battle fell.
They dug a grave and beneath they laid,
Sean Treacy, brave and gay,
Who will never more roam to his own native home
In Tipperary far away.
