In 1919 a group of young men barely out of their teens, poorly armed, with no money and little training, renewed the fight, begun in 1916, to drive the British out of Ireland. Dan Breen was to become the best known of them.
They became outlaws and My Fight for Irish Freedom describes graphically what life was like ‘on the run, ‘ with ‘an army at one’s heels and a thousand pounds on one’s head’.