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A good collection of circulars and documents, 1914-15, mostly cyclostyled, including

- P. O Fathaigh. Dublin City and County Board. Orders for City Companies dated 1 January 1914, endorsed in manuscript.

- Thomas Slater, Hon. Sec. pro tem. Dublin City & County Board. Pencilled note to Capt. O’Reilly, 5.1.14. ‘Kindly arrange to have your Company at Kimmage on Saturday night next for

musketry.’

- P.H. Pearse, Director of Organisation. General Orders. Special Sections. Cyclostyled circular dated 9 December 1914.

- P.H. Pearse, Director of Organisation. Cyclostyled circular enclosing a Scheme of Military Organisation, 30 Dec. 1914 (the Scheme not present)

- Bulmer Hobson, Hon. Secretary. Cyclostyled circular dated 31.12.14, calling attention to the need for support for the Irish Volunteer paper.

- P.H. Pearse, Commandant. Director of Organisation. Easter Arrangements, 24 March 1915, cyclostyled typescript circular, 2 pp., including orders for ‘despatch of a flying column to a

point South of Dublin’.

- T. Slater, Hon. Sec., Dublin city & County Board, 3 April 1915. Orders. ‘Men of Dublin regiment will hold themselves in readiness for possible mobilisation at Easter’.

- Printed document, undated, 1 pp, Conditions for the Supply of Rifles to Irish Volunteer Corps, with Hints on Rifle Cleaning.

- John Lawler & Sons, 2 Fownes’s Street Upper, Dublin. Printed Catalogue of rifles, revolvers, ammunition etc., 20 pp, SCARCE; with an invoice to M.W. O’Reilly for .303 ammunition, 27 Nov.

1914, marked ‘Paid’.

The British authorities were of course aware of this fusillade of military-sounding Orders through 1914 and 1915. Its sheer profusion may have contributed to their relaxing their watch as

the time approached for the real thing in 1916.

As a collection, w.a.f.

Provenance: Collection of M.W. O’Reilly, see his biography above.

€ 200 - 300