18 Facts About Winifred Carney

Winifred Carney and her family moved to Falls Road in Belfast when she was a child, where her mother ran a small sweet shop.

Winifred Carney, educated at the Christian Brothers School in Donegall Street in the city, taught at the school before qualifying, around 1911, as a secretary and shorthand typist, one of the first women in Belfast to do so.

Winifred Carney took an early interest in the work of the Gaelic League and of the Irish Women's Suffrage Society,.

In June 1913, while claiming that "the ranks of the Irish Textile Workers' Union are being recruited by hundreds", with Winifred Carney Connolly produced a Manifesto to the Linen Slaves of Belfast that revealed his frustration as an organiser:.

Inasmuch as they argued that a Dublin parliament would block further advances for women, in the IWSS Winifred Carney was joining with women who were unionist.

Winifred Carney may have met her on that occasion: correspondence with Sylvia Pankhurst was among the papers seized when police raided Winifred Carney's home in July 1922.

Winifred Carney typed most his articles for the labour press.

In Constance Markievicz's nationalist youth, Na Fianna Eireann, and then from April 1914 in the women's auxiliary of the Irish Volunteers, Cumann na mBan, Winifred Carney had received a degree of military training.

Interned, Winifred Carney was transferred in the summer to Aylesbury Prison in England.

Winifred Carney continued to work for the ITGWU while retaining the confidence of the Irish Republican Army leadership in the north.

Winifred Carney became a courier carrying messages relating to his discussions with Sir James Craig, now Prime Minister of Northern Ireland, and then a member of a monitoring committee set up under the pact that was eventually reached.

Winifred Carney saw his Fianna Fail regime as neither advancing the equality of women promised in the 1916 Proclamation nor the Democratic Programme of the First Dail that had subordinated private property to "public right and public welfare".

Relenting only as she lay dying in her last weeks, Winifred Carney refused to accept from Dublin a pension for her part in 1916.

In 1920, Winifred Carney had attended an Independent Labour Party convention in Glasgow and, in 1924 accompanied other ILP members in joining the militant Court branch of the BLP's successor, the Northern Ireland Labour Party.

Winifred Carney was unwilling to work in Dublin, her health was poor, and she was caring for her increasingly infirm mother.

Winifred Carney spent his last decade in what had been the house of Sir James Craig, an Ulster Volunteer rest home in east Belfast.

Together with another bronze by the same artist, Ralph Sander, of the United Irishwoman and abolitionist Mary Ann McCracken, the figure of Winifred Carney was unveiled in front of the city hall on International Women's Day 2024.

Winifred Carney is a chief protagonist in a 2015 graphic novel, designed with an learning pack on the Easter Rising for secondary schools in Northern Ireland.