Note to Commandant Éamon de Valera

A note from Commandant Thomas Hunter to Commandant Éamon de Valera during the 1916 Rising. The pencilled note reads ‘Headquarters staff want to know why you require ten men’. It also suggests that an ‘attack was not to begin until 11.15pm’. The message concludes by asking de Valera to ‘report immediately to Commandant [Thomas] Hunter’. The note provides a time of 10.15pm.

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Date
Apr. 1916
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1 p.; manuscript
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A note from Commandant Thomas Hunter to Commandant Éamon de Valera during the 1916 Rising. The pencilled note reads ‘Headquarters staff want to know why you require ten men’. It also suggests that an ‘attack was not to begin until 11.15pm’. The message concludes by asking de Valera to ‘report immediately to Commandant [Thomas] Hunter’. The note provides a time of 10.15pm.
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Irish Capuchin Archives
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Irish Capuchin Archives > Papers of 'The Capuchin Annual' and the Irish Capuchin Publications Office > Papers of Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. > Commandant Thomas Cornelius Hunter and Commandant Éamon de Valera notes during the 1916 Rising

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Commandant Delva Headquarters staff went to know why you require ten ment. are saving them Attack was not to be until 11. 15 P.M. Report immediately to Command Staff. 10 15 PM Cord Heights