In October 1920 the new British intelligence structure operating from Dublin Castle closed in around Dan Breen, convinced he was responsible for the killing of a high ranking RIC officer in Cork. He would be hospitalized after a dramatic battle in Drumcondra but British agents would continue to stalk his close friend Seán Treacy.
References:
Joe Ambrose - “Seán Treacy and the Tan War”
Dan Breen - “My Fight for Irish Freedom”
T. Ryle Dwyer - “The Squad”
Major George Osbert Sterling Smyth - http://www.bloodysunday.co.uk/castle-intelligence/smyth/smyth.html
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Main Sources:
Military Archives - http://www.bureauofmilitaryhistory.ie
Century Ireland - https://www.rte.ie/centuryireland
Diarmuid Lynch, Irish Revolutionary - http://diarmuidlynch.weebly.com/
The Auxiliary Division - https://theauxiliaries.com/
Atlas of the Irish Revolution
Maurice Walsh - “Bitter Freedom”
Charles Townshend - "The Republic"
Michael Hopkinson - ”The Irish War of Independence”
Diarmuid Ferriter - “A Nation and not a Rabble”
Ronan Fanning - “Fatal Path”
Richard Abbot - “Police Casualties in Ireland 1919 - 1922”
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