Letter from William Pearse to Éamonn Bulfin, 24 April 1916

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Letter from William Pearse to Éamonn Bulfin, 24 April 1916

1 IRISH VOLUNTEERS Headquarters: 2. Dawson Street, DUBLIN. 21st 2th April 1916. Lieut. E Bulfin St Enda's
Sent at 7 a.m.
DUBLIN BRIGADE EASTER MANOEUVERS 1916 Your will report yourself to me at temporary Head
quarters Beresford Place at the hour of 4 pm on 10a.m.
today 24th Sunday next, 23rd inst. (Easter Sunday Monday ) and hold yourself
in readiness tonight on the staff of Commandant P.H. Pearse
Acting G.O.C, Dublin Brigade, during the Easter Manoeuvers. You will provide yourself with a bicycle, a street
map of Dublin city, a road map of the Dublin District, and
a field message book. You will carry full arms and
ammunition, full service equipment (including overcoat)
and rations for eight hours one day You will acknowledge receipt of this order by
by hand bearer to us at St Enda's College, Rath
farnham Liberty Hall the annexed form duly filled in and signed. William Pearse
Capt.
Acting Chief of Staff 2 Headquarters:- 2.Dammon Street. D U B L I N 24th April. 1916 Lieut. E. Bulfin
St.Enda's
Sent at 7 a.m.
DUBLIN BRIGADE: EASTER MANOEUVERS, 1916. You will report yourself to me at temporary Head
quarters. Beresford Place. st the 10 a.m.
to-day, 24th inst. Easter monday and hold yourself
in readiness to act on the Staff of Commandant P.H. Pearse.
Acting G.O.C. Dublin Brigade, during the Easter Manoeuvers. You will provide yourself with a bicycle, a Street
map of Dublin City, a read map of Dublin District, and
a field message book. You will carry full arms and
ammunition, full service equipment (including overcoat)
and rations for one day You will acknowledge of this order by
, by to as at St.Enda's College, Rath
farnhamLiberty Hall the annexed duly filled in and . William Pearse
Capt.
Acting Chief of Staff 3 Mobilisation Order received by Lieut. Eamonn Bulfin on Easter Monday
April 24, 1916. The alterations are in Willie Pearse's hand.
Lent by Eamonn Bulfin. E.W. 48 (Loan) (A)

This is a mobilisation order sent by William Pearse (1881-1916) to Éamonn Bulfin (1892-1968) on 21 April 1916. The order was for the planned Easter Rising on Monday, 24 April. Bulfin and the rest of the Irish Volunteers had received orders to mobilise on Easter Sunday for manouevres. Unbeknownst to the rank and file, these manouevres were to be used as a cover for the beginning of the Easter Rising but were countermanded by Eoin MacNeill, chief of staff of the Irish Volunteers, when he became aware of the plans. The leaders of the Rising then decided to go ahead with the Rising but to postpone it for a day. This order is a copy of the orginal order for Easter Sunday but has been edited in the hand of William Pearse to reflect the change of plans. The Rising went ahead on 24 April with significantly reduced numbers. William Pearse was a sculptor and brother of Patrick Pearse, one of the leaders of the Easter Rising. William held the rank of captain on the headquarters staff of the Dublin Brigade of the Irish Volunteers and Bulfin was a member of the Rathfarnham company and had been one of the first pupil's in Patrick Pearse's bilingual school for boys, St Enda's. William Pearse was executed for his part in the Rising on 4 May and Éamonn Bulfin was imprisoned in Stafford and Frongach.

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Letters 1916, published by the Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities, Vienna, 2026 (https://letters1916static.github.io/letters1916-static/item__0034.html)