Dan Breen

Dan Breen was an Irish republican, political figure, and memoirist born in County Tipperary in 1894. He became widely known for his part in the Irish revolutionary period, especially the Soloheadbeg ambush of 1919, and later served as a Fianna Fáil politician.

For audiobook listeners, he is best known as the author of My Fight for Irish Freedom, a personal account of the independence struggle. The book stands out for its direct, eyewitness style and for the way it captures the intensity, danger, and conviction of the era from someone who lived through it.

Breen died in 1969, but his writing remains part of the historical record of modern Ireland. Readers often come to his work not just for military or political history, but for the immediacy of a life told by a participant rather than a distant observer.