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note / Countermanding Order, 1916 Rising

Countermanding order issued by Eoin MacNeill. Note of Eoin MacNeill with signature, addressed from Woodtown Park, Rathfarnham, April 22, 1916. No direction. Worded 'Volunteers completely deceived. All orders for tomorrow Sunday are entirely cancelled'. On a sheet of notepaper, lower portion torn...

 

mobilisation order / Richard Mulcauley, 22 April 1916

Mobilisation order, written by Joseph Plunkett at Headquarters (Liberty Hall, Beresford Place, Dublin) on 22 April 1916. Addressed to Richard Mulcauley, instructing him to be ready to act on Plunkett's order on Easter Sunday. Manuscript message on a page from a notebook 4.6 x 6 ins. with a...

 

order / Countermanding Order, 1916 Rising

Letter by Eoin Mac Néill authenticating his order countermanding mobilisation on Easter Saturday, published in the 'Sunday Independant' Easter Sunday 1916. On paper stamped 'Woodtown Park, Rathfarnham, Co. Dublin'. Dated Easter Sunday. 'The order to Irish Volunteers printed over my name in...

 

mobilisation order / Easter Sunday Manouevres, 1916

Official mobilisation order for Easter Sunday Manoeuvres, 21 April 1916, signed by Captain Thomas Weafer. Issued to E Company, 2nd Battalion, Irish Volunteers.

 

plate / Coalisland, Co. Tyrone, 1916

Enamelled plate said to have been carried by Irish Volunteers to Coalisland, Co. Tyrone in 1916. 8.5 inches in diameter, white with blue rim and Swedish maker's stamp on bottom.

 

mobilisation order / Irish Citizen Army, Sunday 23 April 1916

Special mobilisation order of the Irish Citizen Army, for all ranks to parade at Liberty Hall with full equipment on Sunday at 3.30, signed James Connolly.

 

table / Liberty Hall, 1916 Rising

The table on which the leaders had their last meal (breakfast) on Easter Monday 1916 before marching out of Liberty Hall. The proofs for the Proclamation were also set out on this table. Information from Mrs Nellie Gifford Donnelly. An oak trestle table top, with one trestle.

 

bicycle / Terence Simpson, 1916

Bicycle which was ridden by Terence Simpson from Drumcondra to St. Stephen's Green and thence to Jacob's Factory on Easter Monday, 1916, when joining his unit in the rebellion. It was confiscated on the surrender and returned to him by the British military authorities at King George V Hospital in...