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Winifred Carney Commemoration 2024

Milltown Cemetery, Belfast Milltown Cemetery, Falls Road, Belfast

‘The Typist with the Webley' Winifred Carney was a suffragist, a teacher and a trade unionist, a member of Cumann na mBan and the Irish Citizen Army, she stood alongside James Connolly and her other comrades in the GPO in Dublin in 1916. Originally from Bangor, Co. Down, her family moved to the Falls Road when she was a child. Educated at the CBS school in Donegall Street, she later qualified as a secretary and as one of the first Belfast women to become a shorthand typist. Her education and skills she put to good use in her political activism,...

20 Years of the PSNI – What has changed?

Belfast, Venue TBC

It has been two decades since the rebranding of the 'Royal Ulster Constabulary' and the commencement of a supposed 'new dispensation' and the PSNI. On the 4th of November in 2001, the RUC received a heavy lick of paint, its funding, infrastructure, equipment, armoured fleet of vehicles, personnel, weaponry and purpose was given a new logo and name as part of a massive public relations exercise. The PSNI project is an ongoing one, with the intentions and hope of selling the force and recruiting from the Catholic, Nationalist and Republican community; with little success. Two decades on, with the shadow...

The Typist with the Webley – Winifred Carney Commemoration 2021

Milltown Cemetery, Belfast Milltown Cemetery, Falls Road, Belfast

The Typist with the Webley - Winifred Carney Commemoration 2021 Winifred Carney was a suffragist, a teacher and a trade unionist, a member of Cumann na mBan and the Irish Citizen Army, she stood alongside James Connolly and her other comrades in the GPO in Dublin in 1916. Originally from Bangor, Co. Down, her family moved to the Falls Road when she was a child. Educated at the CBS school in Donegall Street, she later qualified as a secretary and as one of the first Belfast women to become a shorthand typist. Her education and skills she put to good...