An order will be issued to the inhabitants of the city to remain in
their homes until such time as the Competent Military Authority may
otherwise direct and permit.
Pickets chosen from units of Territorial Forces will be at all
points marked on maps 3 and 4. Accompanying mounted patrols will
continuously visit all points and report every hour.
The following premises will be occupied by adequate forces and all
necessary measures used without need of reference to Headquarters:
First, premises known as Liberty Hall, Beresford Place;
No. 6 Harcourt Street, Sinn Fein Building;
No. 2 Dawson Street, Headquarters Volunteers;
No. 12 D'Olier Street, Nationality Office;
No. 25 Rutland Square, Gaelic League office;
No. 41 Rutland Square, Foresters' Hall;
Sinn Fein Volunteer premises in city;
All National Volunteer premises in city;
Trades Council premises, Capel Street;
Surrey House, Leinster Road, Rathmines.
The following premises will be isolated, all communication to or
from them prevented: Premises known as the Archbishop's House,
Drumcondra; Mansion House, Dawson Street; No. 40 Herbert Park,
Ballyboden; Saint Enda's College, Hermitage, Rathfarnham; and, in
addition, premises in list 5 D, see maps 3 and 4.
This order should become a classic, because it is such a good list of
all meeting-places of those who loved and worked for Ireland in the last
few years. Even the home of the countess, Surrey House, was to have been
occupied; and Saint Enda's, the school where Padraic Pearse was head
master and chief inspiration, was to be "isolated."
Had there been any question about a rising, the possession of this
secret order to the military authorities in Dublin would have been the
signal for it. It was not to be expected that these headquarters of all
that was Irish in the city would surrender tamely to "occupation." More
than this, the order gave new determination to a secret organization not
mentioned in it, the Irish Republican Brotherhood. Not that this was a
new organization, or unknown to the British, for, in its several phases,
it had been in existence since 1858. Its oath is secret, yet has been
published in connection with disclosures about the Fenian movement. This
was one of the names it bore, before the rising of 1867 betrayed it to
the Government. So at this time Connolly and Padraic Pearse and
McDonagh, with all those working to free Ireland, were members of this
brotherhood, and the republic seemed nearer becoming a reality than
ever before in the history of the long struggle.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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