 On 23 February 1919 at a Brigade meeting in Nodstown Tipperary, Robinson and other Brigade officers drafted a proclamation (signed by Robinson) ordering all British military and police forces out of South Tipperary and, if they stayed they would be held to have "forfeited their lives".GHQ refused to sanction the proclamation and demanded it not be publicly displayed.Despite this it was still posted in several places in Tipperary.