1 Staff No. 3 IRISH VOLUNTEERS Headquarters:- 2, Dawson Street, Dublin. 21 st April, 1916. To:- Comdt. The O'Rahilly 40 Herbert Park Ballsbridge Sent at 5p.m DUBLIN BRIGADE : EASTER MANOEUVRES, 1916 You will report yourself to me at temporary Headquarters,
Beresford Place, at the hour of 4 p.m. on
Sunday next, 23 rd inst., (Easter Sunday) and hold yourself
in readiness to act on the Staff of Commandant P.H.Pearse,
Acting G.O.C. Dublin Brigade, during the Easter Manoeuvres. You will provide yourself with a bicycle, a Street
map of Dublin City, a road map of Dublin District, and
a field message book. You will carry full arms and
ammunition, full service equipment (including overcoat)
and rations for eight hours. You will acknowledge receipt of this order by
returning, by hand, to me at St. Enda's College, Rathfarnham,
the annexed form duly filled in and signed. William Pearse
Captain
Acting Chief of Staff 2 (The above interesting orders which were typewritten, were
found on the body of the O'Rahilly, one of the rebel Commandants
who was shot by the 2/6 Sherwood Foresters as he was leading a charge
on one of their barricades in Moor Street near the Post Officer. Upon
homalso was a letter written to his wife after he was wounded in which
he said he was shot leading a charge. He got into an entry on the
side of the street and later endeavoured to crawl to an opening on the
other side. He was wounded again and before he died he wrote in a
firm hand a pencilled note to his wife and children.)