The 3rd Tipperary Brigade was one of the most active of approximately 80 such units that constituted the IRA during the Irish War of Independence. The brigade was based in southern Tipperary and conducted its activities mainly in mid-Munster.
Plaque in Church Street Tipperary commemorating the contribution of the Moloney family to the struggle for independence
Reward poster for Breen following imposition of martial law
Dinny Lacey, commander of the No. 1 Flying Column
Dan Breen's appeal to free state troops
Irish Republican Army (1919–1922)
The Irish Republican Army was an Irish republican revolutionary paramilitary organisation. The ancestor of many groups also known as the Irish Republican Army, and distinguished from them as the "Old IRA", it was descended from the Irish Volunteers, an organisation established on 25 November 1913 that staged the Easter Rising in April 1916. In 1919, the Irish Republic that had been proclaimed during the Easter Rising was formally established by an elected assembly, and the Irish Volunteers were recognised by Dáil Éireann as its legitimate army. Thereafter, the IRA waged a guerrilla campaign against the British occupation of Ireland in the 1919–1921 Irish War of Independence.
Cathal Brugha was the nominal and titular commander of the IRA...
...but Michael Collins's highly prominent role in Dublin gave him de facto control
