This is a mobilisation order from Patrick Pearse (1879-1916) to Frank Sheridan. It gives instructions for E Company assembling at Rathfarnham Chapel on Easter Sunday, 1916, at 2.45pm. It specifies the equipment, arms, and rations to be carried and advises that anybody who has a bicycle or motor cycle should bring itPatrick Henry Pearse was a writer, teacher, and revolutionary nationalist. He was a key member of the military council of the Irish Republican Brotherhood, and was one of the signatories of the proclamation of the Irish republic (largely his own writing), which he read outside the GPO after the outbreak of the Easter Rising. As president of the provisional government, it was Pearse who called the surrender. He was executed on 3 May 1916.Frank Sheridan was a member of E Company, 4th Battalion in the Irish Volunteers, a paramilitary nationalist organisation set up in December 1913.