#Winifred Carney

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#OTD in 1916 – Joseph Mary Plunkett and Grace Gifford are married in the chapel of Kilmainham Gaol the night before he was to be executed for his part in the Easter Rising.

Grace was the second youngest of twelve children. Her sisters, Nellie and Muriel, were also avid nationalists as well as converts to Catholicism. Muriel married Thomas MacDonagh, who was executed in Kilmainham earlier on the day Grace married Joe Plunkett. It was said of the Gifford girls: “whenever those vivacious girls entered a gloomy Sinn Féin room, they turned it into a flower garden”. Fr…

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I'm reading up on Winifred Carney and God she did not like Michael Collins at ALL 💀

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Maria Winifred Carney (4 December 1887 – 21 November 1943), also known as Winnie Carney, was an Irish suffragist, trade unionist, and Irish independence activist.

She was present with Connolly in the Dublin General Post Office during the Easter Rising in 1916. Carney was the only woman present during the initial occupation of the building, which she entered armed with a typewriter and a Webley revolver. While not a combatant, she was given the rank of adjutant and was among the final group (including Connolly and Patrick Pearse) to leave the GPO. After Connolly became wounded, she refused to leave his side. This was despite direct orders from Pearse and Connolly. She had earlier taken the wounded Connolly's final dictated orders. Carney, alongside Elizabeth O'Farrell and Julia Grenan left the GPO with the rest of the rebels when the building became engulfed in flames. They made their new headquarters in nearby Moore Street before Pearse surrendered.

After her capture, she was held in Kilmainham Gaol and was then moved to Mountjoy Prison. Carney, alongside Helena Molony, Maria Perolz, Brigid Foley and Ellen O'Ryan and others were moved to an English prison. 69 women were released from prison one week after the execution of the Rising's leaders. By August 1916 Carney was imprisoned in Aylesbury prison alongside Nell Ryan and Helena Molony. The three requested that their internee status, and the privileges it brought, be revoked so that they would be held as normal prisoners with Countess Markievicz. Their request was denied, however Carney and Molony were released two days before Christmas 1916. After the Anglo-Irish Treaty and the formation of the Irish Free State, Carney sided with the Anti-Treaty forces and was arrested several times. She was interned in Armagh Gaol on 25 July 1922 and released on 9 August 1922.

Despite her own time of imprisonment, Carney was not opposed to visiting her political friends during their times in prison. It was recorded that she visited Austin Stack in December 1918.

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Rosaries that belonged to Irish revolutionaries Kevin Barry, Sean Heuston, Tomas O’Reilly, Winifred Carney, and Joseph Plunkett

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James Connolly's secretary and her UVF husband

James Connolly’s secretary and her UVF husband

The unlikely love story of Winnie Carney, founder member of Cumann na mBan in Belfast, and Somme veteran George McBride

UVF veteran George McBride (36th Ulster Division) and Winifred Carney founding member of the Cumann na mBan, Belfast

The writing box given to Rita Murphy, a nurse in the UVF hospital, and passed on to her daughter-in-law Allison Murphy, author Winnie and George: An Unlikely Union

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Frances Coles timeline

1859 – Frances is born at her family’s home at 18 Crucifix Lane in Bermondsey (Southwark, London), to James William Coles and Mary Ann Carney (September 17). 

1871 – The family lives at 8 Lion Court, Berdmondsey. 

1873 – Frances' father, James William, now widow, moves to St Mary Magdalen Worhouse in Berdmondsey, maybe with his youngest children, Frances and James Jr. 

Ca. 1877 – Frances works as a trainee in the packing department of a soap and toiletries manufacturer called James Sinclair & Son, at 65 Southwark Street, and she moves into a lodging house at 192 Union Street. 

1881 – Frances still lives at 192 Union Street, but now works at Winifred Hora & Co., a small wholesale druggist company in the East End, located at 58 Minories Street, stoppering the bottles. 

1883 – Frances lives in a new residence, Wilmott’s Lodging House at 18 Thrawl Street in Spitalfields. She doesn’t work at Hora’s anymore. At this time she meets and starts a relationship with labourer James Murray. 

Ca. 1886 – Her relationship of 4 years with James Murray ends.

Ca. 1887 – She has to support herself through prostitution, adopting the nickname of ‘Carroty Nell’.

1889 – Frances meets merchant seaman James Thomas Sadler (September). 

1890 – Frances visits her oldest sister Mary Ann and tells her she is living with an elderly woman in Richard Street, Commercial Road, still working at the chemist’s in the Minories (December 26). 

1891 – Frances is forced to leave Wilmott’s lodging house because she cannot pay her bed (early January). 

1891 – Frances visits her father in the Bermondsey Workhouse on Tanner Street, for the last time, she tells him she doesn’t work at Hora’s anymore (February 6). 

1891 – James Thomas Sadler arrives to London and meets Frances and go to several pubs and spend the night together at Spitalfields Chambers, a common lodging house at 8 White’s Row (February 11). 

1891 – Frances buys a new hat with money that James has given her. In the evening she meets with James at Spitalfields chambers, but they don’t have money to pay for a bed (February 12). 

1891 – Frances has a meal at Shuttleworth’s eating house in Wentworth Street (February 13). 

1891 – Frances meets prostitute Ellen Callana in Commercial Street who's approached by a violent man. She refuses him but Frances goes with him instead (February 13). 

1891 – PC Ernest Thompson finds a mortally wounded Frances in Shallow Gardens, Whitechapel. She would die there soon after. She was 31 (February 13).

Your life was difficult and cut short. You were free at last... 🌼

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(2011 RTE) Reabhloid, Episode 4; “Snapshot of Surrender” 

 Elizabeth O’Farrell took part in the Easter Rising as a nurse and courier. At the end of the Rising, the majority of participants evacuated the GPO Garrison, leaving the revolutionary Leaders as well as three women; O’Farrell, her life-long partner Julia Grennan and Winifred Carney. When the decision was made to surrender, O’Farrell was chosen to go alone into the battlefield to deliver the notice of surrender to the British HQ, with only a white flag and her Red Cross uniform as protection.  She was ordered to return to the British garrison with Padraic Pearse to surrender in person.

An iconic photo of Pearse surrendering to General Lowe was taken and published 10 days later in an English Tabloid, The Daily Sketch. O’Farrell’s cape, white nurse’s dress and shoes are absent from this famous image despite being visible in a sepia print of the photo which was found in 2011. The Daily Sketch had photo-montaged Elizabeth O’Farrell out of history.

O’Farrell was asked in later years about her side of the story. She claimed that she had stepped back in the photo “to avoid giving the enemy press any satisfaction”. She was secure in her contribution to the revolution and so had no concern for being in the spotlight. Some historians theorise that it was Pearse who had control over the image, as he always carefully orchestrated his own public image. But as we do not know who took the photo, we can never really know what their intention was.

The iconic surrender image is such an obvious representation of the erasure of women from our history, it is almost on-the-nose. In the years following the 1916 Rising, especially in de Valera’s state, women’s social position was so reduced, it was hard to imagine that radical views among women ever existed. It fit in with this new social outlook that women played a negligible role in the Rising and the evidence that they did seemed to disappear, not unlike O’Farrell’s feet.

Queerness is also under threat of being erased: as iconic as this image of the Rising is, the fact that O’Farrell was almost certainly, and Pearse was likely Queer is rarely mentioned.

It is our job as modern history-lovers to try to paint women and queer and trans people back into our history, which has so consistently tried to wipe them out.

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Thanks to the heroic work of Catherine Corless, here are the names of the seven hundred and ninety-six children who died in a Tuam mother and baby home run by the Catholic Church in collusion with the government in Ireland, and whose bodies were thrown into a septic tank at the site pictured above. 

This was one mother and baby home. There is evidence to suggest that we can expect similar results from the many other Irish mother and baby homes (and this is without talking about Magdalene Laundries).

I’m not putting any of this under a Read More link. I’m just not.

1925

Patrick Derrane 5 months Mary Blake 4 months Matthew Griffin 3 months Mary Kelly 6 months Peter Lally 11 months Julia Hynes 1 year James Murray 1 month

1926

Joseph McWilliam 6 months John Mullen 3 months Mary Wade 3 years Maud McTigue 6 years Bernard Lynch 3 years Martin Shaughnessy 18 months Bridget Glynn 1 year Margaret Glynn 1 year Patrick Gorham 21 months Patrick O’Connell 1 year John Carty 21 months Madeline Bernard 2 years Maureen Kenny 8 years Kathleen Donohue 1 year Thomas Donelan 2 years Mary Quilan 2 years Mary King 9 months Mary Warde 21 months George Coyne 2 years Julia Cummins 18 months Barbara Fola/ Wallace 9 months Pauline Carter 11 months Mary Walsh 1 year Annie Stankard 10 months John Connelly 9 months Anthony Cooke 1 month Michael Casey 3 years Annie McCarron 2 months Patricia Dunne 2 months John Carty 3 months Peter McNamara 7 weeks Mary Shaughnessy 4 months Joseph Coen 5 months Mary Murphy 2 months Patrick Kelly 2 months Martin Rabbitte 6 weeks Kathleen Quinn 7 months Patrick Halpin 2 months Martin McGuinness 6 months

1927

Mary Kate Connell 3 months Patrick Raftery 7 months Patrick Paterson 5 months James Murray 1 month Colman O’ Loughlin 5 months Agnes Canavan 18 months Christina Lynch 15 months Mary O’Loughlin 6 months Annie O’ Connor 15 months John Greally 11 months Joseph Fenigan 4 years Mary Connolly 2 months James Muldoon 4 months Joseph Madden 3 months Mary Devaney 18 months

1928

Michael Gannon 6 months Bridget Cunningham 2 months Margaret Conneely 18 months Patrick Warren 8 months James Mulryan 1 month Mary Kate Fahey 3 years Mary Mahon 1 month Martin Flanagan 1 month Mary Forde 4 months Patrick Hannon 20 months Michael Donellan 6 months Joseph Ward 7 months Walter Jordan 3 years Mary Mullins 1 month

1929

Peter Christian 7 months Mary Cunningham 5 months James Ryan 9 months Patrick O’Donnell 9 months Mary Monaghan 4 years Patrick O’Malley 1 year Philomena Healy 11 months Michael Ryan 1 year Patrick Curran 6 months Patrick Fahy 2 months Laurence Molloy 5 months Patrick Lynskey 6 months Vincent Nally 21 months Mary Grady 18 months Martin Gould 21 months Patrick Kelly 2 months

1930

Bridget Quinn 1 year William Reilly 9 months George Lestrange 7 months Christy Walshe 15 months Margaret Mary Gagen 1 year Patrick Moran 4 months Celia Healy 5months James Quinn 4 years Bridget Walsh 15months

1931

Patrick Shiels 4 months Mary Teresa Drury 1 year Peter O’Brien 18 months Peter Malone 18 months Carmel Moylan 8 months Mary Burke 10 months Mary Josephine Garvey 5 months Mary Warde 10 months Catherine Howley 9 months Michael Pat McKenna 3 months Richard Raftery 3 months

1932

Margaret Doorhy 8 months Patrick Leonard 9 months Mary Coyne 1 year Mary Kate Walsh 2 years Christina Burke 1 year Mary Margaret Jordan 18 months John Joseph McCann 8 months Teresa McMullan 1 year George Gavin 1 year Joseph O’Boyle 2 months Peter Nash 1 year Bridget Galvin 3 months Margaret Niland 3 years Christina Quinn 3 months Kathleen Cloran 9 years Annie Sullivan 8 months Patricia Judge 1 year Mary Birmingham 9 months Laurence Hill 11 months Brendan Patrick Pender 1 month Kate Fitzmaurice 4 months Baby Mulkerrins 5 days Angela Madden 3 months Mary McDonagh 1 year

1933

Mary C Shaughnessy 1 month Mary Moloney 11 months Patrick Joseph Brennan 1 months Anthony O’Toole 2 months Mary Cloherty 9days Joseph Fahy 10 months Mary Finola Cunniffe 6 months Martin Cassidy 5 months Francis Walsh 3 months Mary Garvey 4 months Kathleen Gilchrist 8 months Mary Kate Walsh 1 months Eileen Fallon 18 months Harry Leonard 3 years Mary Kate Guilfoyle 3 months John Callinan 3 months John Kilmartin 2 months Julia Shaughnessy 3 months Patrick Prendergast 6 months Bridgid Holland 2 months Bridgid Moran 15 months Margaret Mary Fahy 15 months Bridgid Ryan 9 months Mary Brennan 4 months Mary Conole 1 months John Flattery 2 years Margaret Donohue 10 months Joseph Dunn 3 years Owen Lenane 2 months Josephine Steed 3 months Mary Meeneghan 3 months James McIntyre 4 months

1934

John Joseph Murphy 4 months Margaret Mary O’Gara 2 months Eileen Butler 2 months Thomas Molloy 2 months James Joseph Bodkin 6 months John Kelly 2 months Mary Walshe 6 months Mary Jo Colohan 4 months Florence Conneely 7 months Norah McCann 1 months Mary Kelly 9 months Rose O’Dowd 6 months Mary Egan 4 months Michael Concannon 4 months Paul Joyce 10 months Mary Christina Kennedy 4 months Bridget Finnegan 2 months Mary Flaherty 3 months Thomas McDonagh 4 months Joseph Hoey 1 year Sheila Tuohy 9 years Teresa Cunniffe 3 months Joseph Clohessy 2 months Mary Kiely 4 months Thomas Cloran 6 months Mary Burke 3 months Mary Marg Flaherty 4 months John Keane 17 days Luke Ward 15 months Mary O’Reilly 5 months

1935

Ellen Mountgomery 18 months Mary Elizabeth Lydon 4 months Brigid Madden 1 month Mary Margaret Murphy 4 months Mary Nealon 7 months Stephen Linnane 4 months Josephine Walsh 1 years Kate Cunningham 2 months Mary Bernadet Hibbett 1 month Thomas Linnane 4 months Patrick Lane 3 months Mary Anne Conway 2 months James Kane 8 months Christopher Leech 3 months Elizabeth Ann McCann 5 months Margaret Mary Coen 2 months Michael Linnane 15months Bridget Glenane 5 weeks

1936

John O’Toole 7 months John Creshal 4 months Mary Teresa Egan 3 months Michael Boyle 3 months Anthony Mannion 6 weeks Donald Dowd 5 months Peter Ridge 4 months Eileen Collins 2 months Mary Brennan 2 months James Fahy 5 months Mary Bridget Larkin 8 months Margaret Scanlon 3 years Brian O’Malley 4 months Michael Madden 6 months

1937

Mary Kate Cahill 2 weeks Mary Margaret Lydon 3 months Festus Sullivan 1 month Annie Curley 3 weeks Nuala Lydon 5 months Bridget Collins 5 weeks Patrick Joseph Coleman 1 month Joseph Hannon 6 weeks Henry Monaghan 3 weeks Michael Joseph Shiels 7 weeks Martin Sheridan 5 weeks John Patrick Loftus 10 months Patrick Joseph Murphy 3 months Catherine McHugh 4 months Mary Patricia Toher 4 months Mary Kate Sheridan 4 months Mary Flaherty 19 months Mary Anne Walsh 14 months Eileen Quinn 2 years Patrick Burke 9 months Margaret Holland 2 days Joseph Langan 6 months Sabina Pauline O’Grady 6 months Patrick Qualter 3 years Mary King 5 months Eileen Conry 1 year

1938

Mary Nee 4 months Martin Andrew Larkin 14 months Mary Keane 3 weeks Kathleen V Cuffe 6 months Margaret Linnane 4 months Teresa Heneghan 3 months John Neary 7 months Patrick Madden 4 months Mary Cafferty 2 months Mary Kate Keane 3 months Patrick Hynes 3 weeks Annie Solan 2 months Charles Lydon 9 months Margaret Mullins 7 months Mary Mulligan 2 months Anthony Lally 5 months Joseph Spelman 6 weeks Annie Begley 3 months Vincent Egan 1 week Nora Murphy 5 months Patrick Garvey 6 months Patricia Burke 4 months Winifred Barret 2 years Agnes Marron 3 months Christopher Kennedy 5 months Patrick Harrington 1 week

1939

Kathleen Devine 2 years Vincent Garaghan 1 month Ellen Gibbons 6 months Michael McGrath 4 months Edward Fraser 3 months Bridget Lally 1 year Patrick McLoughlin 5 months Martin Healy 4 months Nora Duffy 3 months Margaret Higgins 1 week Patrick Egan 6 months Vincent Farragher 11 months Patrick Joseph Jordan 3 months Michael Hanley 1 month Catherine Gilmore 3 months Baby Carney 1 day Annie Coyne 3 months Helena Cosgrave 5 months Thomas Walsh 2 months Baby Walsh 1 day Kathleen Hession 4 months Brigid Hurley 11 months Ellen Beegan 2 months Mary Keogh 1 year Bridget Burke 3 months

1940

Martin Reilly 9 months Martin Hughes 11 months Mary Connolly 1 month Mary Kate Ruane 1 month Joseph Mulchrone 3 months Michael Williams 14 months Martin Moran 7 weeks Josephine Mahony 2 months James Henry 5 weeks Bridget Staunton 5 months John Creaven 2 weeks Peter Lydon 6 weeks Patrick Joseph Ruane 4 months Michael Quinn 8 months Julia Coen 1 week Annie McAndrew 5 months John Walsh 3 months Patrick Flaherty 6 months Bernadette Purcell 2 years Joseph Macklin 1 day Thomas Duffy 2 days Elizabeth Fahy 4 months James Kelly 2 months Nora Gallagher 4 months Kathleen Cannon 4 months Winifred Tighe 8 months Christopher Williams 1 year Joseph Lynch 1 year Andrew McHugh 15 months William Glennan 18 months Michael J Kelly 5 months Patrick Gallagher 3 months Michael Gerard Keane 2 months Ellen Lawless 6 months

1941

Mary Finn 3 months Martin Timlin 3 months Mary McLoughlin 1 month Mary Brennan 5 months Patrick Dominic Egan 1 month Nora Thornton 17 months Anne Joyce 1 year Catherine Kelly 10 months Michael Monaghan 8 months Simon John Hargraves 6 months Baby Forde 1 day Joseph Byrne 2 months Patrick Hegarty 4 months Patrick Corcoran 1 month James Leonard 16 days Jane Gormley 22 days Anne Ruane 11 days Patrick Munnelly 3 months John Lavelle 6 weeks Patrick Ruane 24 days Patrick Joseph Quinn 3 months Joseph Kennelly 15 days Kathleen Monaghan 3 months Baby Quinn 2 days Anthony Roche 4 months Annie Roughneen 3 weeks Anne Kate O’Hara 4 months Patrick Joseph Nevin 3 months John Joseph Hopkins 3 months Thomas Gibbons 1 month Winifred McTigue 7 months Thomas Joseph Begley 2 months

1942

Kathleen Heneghan 25 days Elizabeth Murphy 4 months Nora Farnan 1 month Teresa Tarpey 1 month Margaret Carey 11 months John Garvey 6 weeks Bridget Goldrick 4 months Bridget White 3 months Noel Slattery 1 month Mary T Connaughton 4 months Nora McCormack 6 weeks Joseph Hefferon 5 months Mary Higgins 9 days Mary Farrell 21 days Mary McDonnell 1 month Geraldine Cunniffe 11 weeks Michael Mannion 3 months Bridget McHugh 7 months Mary McEvady 18 months Helena Walsh 3 months William McDoell 2 days Michael Finn 14 months Mary Murphy 10 months Gertrude Glynn 6 months Joseph Flaherty 7 weeks Mary O’Malley 4 years John P Callanan 13 days Baby McDonnell 1 day Female McDonnell 1 day Christopher Burke 9 months Stephen Connolly 8 months Mary Atkinson 6 months Mary Anne Finegan 7 weeks Francis Richardson 15 months Michael John Rice 6 months Nora Carr 4 months William Walsh 16 months Vincent Cunnane 14 months Eileen Coady 10 months Female Roache 1 day Male Roache 1 day Patrick Flannery 2 months John Dermody 3 months Margaret Spellman 4 months Austin Nally 3 months Margaret Dolan 3 months Vincent Finn 9 months Bridget Grogan 6 months

1943

Thomas Patrick Cloran 9 weeks Catherine Devere 1 month Mary Josephine Glynn 1 day Annie Connolly 9 months Martin Cosgrove 7 weeks Catherine Cunningham 2 years Bridget Hardiman 2 months Mary Grier 5 months Mary P McCormick 2 months Brendan Muldoon 5 weeks Nora Moran 7 months Joseph Maher 20 days Teresa Dooley 3 months Daniel Tully 7 months Brendan Durkan 1 month Sheila O’Connor 3 months Annie Coen 6 months Patrick J Kennedy 6 days Thomas Walsh 2 months Patrick Rice 1 year Edward McGowan 10 months Brendan Egan 10 months Margaret McDonagh 1 month Annie J Donellan 10 months Thomas Walsh 14 days Bridget Quinn 6 months Mary Mulkerins 5 weeks Kathleen Parkinson 10 months Sheila Madeline Flynn 4 months Patrick Joseph Maloney 2 months Bridget Carney 7 months Mary M O’Connor 6 months Joseph Geraghty 3 months Annie Coen 10 months Martin Joseph Feeney 4 months Anthony Finnegan 3 months Patrick Coady 3 months Baby Cunningham 1 day Annie Fahy 3 months Baby Byrne 1 day Patrick Mullaney 18 months Thomas Connelly 3 months Mary Larkin 2 months Margaret Kelly 4 months Barbara McDonagh 4 months Mary O’Brien 4 months Keiran Hennelly 14 months Annie Folan 4 months Baby McNamara 1 day Julia Murphy 3 months

1944

John Rockford 4 months Vincent Geraghty 1 year Male O’Brien 2 days Anthony Deane 2 days Mary Teresa O’Brien 15 days John Connelly 3 months Bridget Murphy 3 months Patricia Dunne 2 months Francis Kinahan 1 month Joseph Sweeney 20 days Josephine O’Hagan 6 months Patrick Lavin 1 month Annie Maria Glynn 13 months Kate Agnes Moore 2 months Kevin Kearns 15 months Thomas Doocey 15 months William Conneely 8 months Margaret Spelman 16 months Mary Kate Cullen 22 months Kathleen Brown 3 years Julia Kelly 19 months Mary Connolly 7 years Catherine Harrison 2 years Eileen Forde 21 months Michael Monaghan 2 years Mary Frances Lenihan 3 days Anthony Byrne 6 months Jarlath Thornton 7 weeks John Kelly 6 days Joseph O’Brien 18 months Anthony Hyland 3 months Male Murray 1 day Female Murray 1 day Joseph F McDonnell 11 days Mary Walsh 15 months Baby Glynn 1 day James Gaughan 14 months Margaret Walsh 4 months Mary P Moran 9 days John Francis Malone 7 days

1945

Michael F Dempsey 7 weeks Christina M Greally 4 months Teresa Donnellan 1 month Rose Anne King 5 weeks Christopher J Joyce 2 months James Mannion 8 months Mary T Sullivan 3 weeks Patrick Holohan 11 months Michael Joseph Keane 1 month Bridget Keaney 2 months Joseph Flaherty 8 days Baby Mahady 3 days James Rogers 10 days Kathleen F Taylor 9 months Gerard C Hogan 7 months Kathleen Corrigan 2 months Mary Connolly 3 months Patrick J Farrell 5 months Patrick Laffey 3 years Fabian Hynes 8 months John Joseph Grehan 2 years Edward O’Malley 3 months Mary Fleming 6 months Bridget F McHugh 3 months Michael Folan 18 months Oliver Holland 6 months Ellen Nevin 7 months Margaret Horan 6 months Peter Mullarky 4 months Mary P O’Brien 4 months Teresa Francis O’Brien 4 months Mary Kennedy 18 months Sarah Ann Carroll 4 months Baby Maye 5 days

1946

Mary Devaney 21 days Anthony McDonnell 6 months Vincent Molloy 7 days John Patrick Lyons 5 months Gerald Aidan Timlin 3 days Patrick Costelloe 17 days John Francis O’Grady 1 month Bridget Mary Flaherty 12 days Josephine Finnegan 20 months Martin McGrath 3 days Baby Haugh 1 day James Frayne 1 month Mary Frances Crealy 14 days Mary Davey 2 months Patrick Joseph Hoban 11 days Angela Dolan 3 months Mary Lyden 5 months Bridget Coneely 4 months Austin O’Toole 4 months Bernard Laffey 5 months Mary Ellen Waldron 8 months Terence O’Boyle 3 months Mary Frances O’Hara 1 month Martin Dermott Henry 43 days Mary Devaney 3 months Bridget Foley 6 months Martin Kilkelly 40 days Theresa Monica Hehir 6 weeks Patrick A Mitchell 3 months John Kearney 5 months John Joseph Kelly 3 months John Conneely 4 months Stephen L O’Toole 2 months Thomas A Buckley 5 weeks Michael John Gilmore 3 months Patrick J Monaghan 3 months Mary Teresa Murray 2 months Patrick McKeighe 2 months John Raymond Feeney 3 months Finbar Noone 2 months John O’Brien 21 days Beatrice Keane 5 years Mary P Veale 5 weeks Winifred Gillespie 1 year Anthony Coen 10 weeks Michael F Sheridan 3 months Anne Holden 3 months Martin Joseph O’Brien 7 weeks Winifred Larkin 1 month

1947

Patrick Thomas Coen 1 month Mary Bridget Joyce 8 months Geraldine Collins 13 months Mary Flaherty 5 days Vincent Keogh 5 months John Francis Healy 10 days Martin J Kennelly 1 month Patrick Keaveney 2 months Philomena Flynn 2 months William Reilly 9 months Margaret N Concannon 1 year Patrick J Fitzpatrick 14days Joseph Cunningham 2 months Mary J Flaherty 13 months Kathleen Murray 3 years John O’Connell 2 years Alphonsus Hanley 21 months Bridget P Muldoon 11 months Patricia C Higgins 5 months Catherine B Kennedy 2 months John Desmond Dolan 15 months Stephen Joynt 2 years Catherine T Kearns 2 years Margaret Hurney 2 years John Patton 2 years Patrick J Williams 15 months Nora Hynes 8 months Anthony Donohue 2 years Brendan McGreal 1 year Anthony Cafferky 23 days Nora Cullinane 18 months Kathleen Daly 2 years Nora Conneely 15 months Mary Teresa Joyce 13 months Kenneth A Ellesmere 1 day Mary P Carroll 4 months Thomas Collins 17 months Margaret M Moloney 3 months Josephine Tierney 8 months Margaret M Deasy 3 months Martin Francis Bane 3 months Bridget Agatha Kenny 2 months Baby Kelly 1 day Mary Teresa Judge 15 months Paul Dominick Bennett 3 months Mary Bridget Giblin 18 months

1948

Kathleen Madden 2 months Mary P Byrne 8 weeks Joseph Byrce 4 months Joseph Byrne 11 months Kathleen Glynn 4 months Augustine Jordan 9 months Michael F Dwyer 18 months Noel C Murphy 14 months Margaret McNamee 6 months Patrick Grealish 6 weeks Bernadette O’Reilly 7 months John Joseph Carr 3 weeks Paul Gardiner 10 months Simon Thomas Folan 9 weeks Joseph Ferguson 3 months Peter Heffernan 4 months Patrick J Killeen 14 weeks Stephen Halloran 7 months Teresa Grealish 5 months John Keane 4 months Mary Burke 9 months Brigid McTigue 3 months Margaret R Broderick 8 months Martin Mannion 3 months 1949

Mary Margaret Riddell 8 months Thomas J Noonan 7 weeks Peter Casey 10 months Michael Scully 3 months Baby Lyons 5 days Hubert McLoughlin 4 months Mary M Finnegan 3 months Nicholas P Morley 3 months Teresa Bane 6 months Patrick J Kennedy 5 weeks Michael Francis Ryan 3 days John Forde 2 years Mary P Cunnane 3 months Margaret P Sheridan 4 months Patrick Joseph Nevin 3 months Joseph Nally 5 months Christopher Burke 3 months Anne Madden 7 weeks Bridget T Madden 7 weeks Thomas Murphy 3 months Francis Carroll 2 months Bridget J Linnan 9 months Josephine Staunton 8 days Mary Ellen McKeigue 7 weeks

1950

Mary J Mulchrone 3 months Catherine Higgins 4 years Catherine Anne Egan 3 months Thomas McQuaid 4 months Dermott Muldoo 4 months Martin Hanley 9 weeks John Joseph Lally 3 months Brendan Larkin 5 months Baby Bell 1 day Mary J Larkin 7 months Annie Fleming 9 months Colm A McNulty 1 month Walter Flaherty 3 months Sarah Burke 15 days Mary Ann Boyle 5 months John Anthony Murphy 5 months Joseph A Colohan 4 months Christopher Begley 18 days

1951

Catherine A Meehan 4 months Martin McLynskey 6 months Mary J Crehan 3 months Mary Ann McDonagh 2 months Joseph Folan 22 days Evelyn Barrett 4 months Paul Morris 4 months Peter Morris 4 months Mary Martyna Joyce 18 months Mary Margaret Lane 7 months

1952

John Noone 4 months Anne J McDonnell 6 months Joseph Anthony Burke 6 months Patrick Hardiman 6 months Patrick Naughton 12 days Josephine T Staunton 21 days John Joseph Mills 5 months

1953

Baby Hastings 1 day Mary Donlon 4 months Nora Connolly 15 months

1954

Anne Heneghan 3 months Mary Keville 9 months Martin Murphy 5 months Mary Barbara Murphy 5 months Mary P Logue 5 months Margaret E Cooke 6 months Mary Ann Broderick 14 months Ann Marian Fahy 4 months Anne Dillon 4 months Imelda Halloran 2 years

1955

Joseph Gavin 10 months Marian Brigid Mulryan 10 months Mary C Rafferty 3 months Nora Mary Howard 4 months Joseph Dempsey 3 months Patrick Walsh 3 weeks Francis M Heaney 3 years

1956

Dermot Gavin 2 weeks Mary C Burke 3 years Patrick Burke 1 year Paul Henry Nee 5 months Oliver Reilly 4 months Gerard Connaughton 11 months Rose Marie Murphy 2 years

1957

Margaret Connaire 4 months Stephen Noel Browne 2 years Baby Fallon 4 days

1958

Geraldine O’Malley 6 months

1959

Dolores Conneely 7 months Mary Maloney 4 months

1960

Mary Carty 5 months

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It Seems Like Nothing Changes

Paul Cussen

January 1919

This is the year that sees the publication of Yeats’ The Wild Swan’s at Coole, Francis Ledwidge’s Complete Poems, and ‘An Seabhac’, Pádraig Ó Siochfhradha’s Jimín Mháire Thaidhg, the year in which Poe’s Tales of Mystery and Imagination is published with illustrations by Harry Clarke.

C.S. Lewis publishes his first work in London, Spirits in Bondage: a cycle of lyrics.

Other publications of note are:

 Sherwood Anderson’s Winesburg, Ohio

 Herman Hesse’s Demian 

Franz Kafka’s In der Strafkolonie (‘In the Penal Colony’)

W. Somerset Maugham’s The Moon and Sixpence

Marcel Proust’s À l'Ombre des jeunes filles en fleurs, vol. 2 of À la recherche du temps perdu

P.G. Wodehouse’s My Man Jeeves stories

Virginia Woolf’s Night and Day

L. Frank Baum’s The Magic of Oz

The War Poems of Siegfried Sassoon

Father Francis P. Duffy’s Father Duffy's Story: A Tale of Humor and Heroism, Of Life and Death with the Fighting Sixty-Ninth (with Joyce Kilmer)

John Maynard Keynes’ The Economic Consequences of Peace

Prof. William Strunk’s magnificent The Elements of Style

Sapper Dorothy Lawrence: The Only English Woman Soldier, and

Arthur Ransome’s Six Weeks in Russia

The Little Review was seized by the Post Office in January, not because of the contribution by James Joyce, but because of the inclusion of some nude drawings.

In mid-January approximately 5,000 soldiers mutiny in Southampton, taking over the docks and refusing to obey orders.  Lies had been told and the men had thought they were to be discharged when they were being sent to France.  Sir Hugh Trenchard surrounded the mutineers with soldiers and military police.

There was a melee between US sailors and British soldiers on board the Rosslare express train from Cork.  Most of the windows were broken when the train arrived in Waterford and a number of the American sailors were injured. One was missing, and was later found, fighting fit, in Dungarvan.

In Belfast more than 20 Sinn Féin prisoners climbed on to the roof of the prison where, over the course of two hours, they waved republican flags and sang Sinn Féin and other songs to a large crowd that assembled on Crumlin Road.  Their protest ended when members of the crowd began throwing stones at the protesters on the roof despite a police presence.

 ‘I can declare that the spirit of the prisoners, so far from being broken, has grown more robust since their entrance to the jail.’ - Count Plunkett

 ‘In January, 1919, Cork Brigade, which was made up of about twenty battalions and embraced the whole of Cork County, was divided into three Brigades.  Our Battalion (Bandon) became the 1st Battalion, Cork III. Brigade.

The other battalions in the Brigade area were, as far as I can recollect, - Clonakilty (2nd), Dunmanway (3rd), Skibbereen (4th), Bantry (5th). The 0/C., Cork III. Brigade, was Tom Hales who, up to the formation of the Brigade, was O/C. Bandon (1st) Battalion. I cannot recollect the names of the other officers on the Brigade Staff.

During 1919, beyond normal training, which was becoming slightly more advanced -selected members were being trained in scouting, signalling and the use of arms - there was no unusual activity in Company area.’ – Laurence Sexton.

http://www.bureauofmilitaryhistory.ie/reels/bmh/BMH.WS1290.pdf#page=5

 1 January - Count Plunkett stays in his house in Upper Fitzwilliam Street in Dublin after being released from Birmingham Jail, having served seven months imprisonment.

Jerome David Salinger is born in Manhattan (d. 2010)

Edsel Ford succeeds his father as president of the Ford Motor Company.

HMY Iolaire hits the infamous "Beasts of Holm" rocks and sinks a mile from Stornoway harbour.  Over 200 people drown in the tragedy.

2 January - The Cork Examiner reproduces a Daily Express article entitled ‘Why the Women Failed’ as 17 women had stood for election and only Countess Markievicz was elected. Two women had stood for election in Ireland; Winifred Carney failed to secure the seat for the Victoria Ward in Belfast.

3 January - The Faisal-Weizmann Agreement is signed for the development of a Jewish homeland in Palestine.

Tragic Week begins in Argentina as striking workers fire on police. Three policemen die over the course of the week and 78 are wounded.  Between 100 and 700 civilian deaths are reported along with 2,000 wounded, while 50,000 people are imprisoned.  Martial law is declared.

5 January - The Sparticist uprising begins in Berlin.

6 January - Theodore Roosevelt dies in his sleep (b. 1858)

7 January - A reception is held at the Imperial Hotel by the members of the Cork branch of the Irish Women's Association for almost 300 Munster men who had been prisoners of war.

Robert Duncan is born in Oakland, California (d.1988)

The Christmas Rebellion in Cetinje begins in response to an attempt to unite the Kingdom of Montenegro with the Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes.

The Industrial and Commercial Workers' Union of South Africa is founded, led by Clements Kadalie.

10 January - Private Harman and Private Perry of the Royal Defence Corps were shot on sentry duty at the railway bridge in Monard.

The newly formed Freikorps attack Sparticist supporters in Berlin.

13 January - Workers councils in Berlin end the general strike bringing the Sparticist uprising to an end.

15 January - Proportional Representation is used for first time in Sligo municipal elections.

Rosa Luxemburg (b. 1871) is arrested along with Karl Liebknecht (the only member of the Reichstag to have voted against the war, b.1871) for their part in the Sparticist uprising.  They are murdered by members of the Freikorps. Luxemburg’s body is thrown in the Landwehr Canal in Berlin.

Red Rosa now has vanished too. (...) She told the poor what life is about, And so the rich have rubbed her out. May she rest in peace.                                    - Bertolt Brecht

The Great Boston Molasses Flood occurs when a large storage tank bursts and a wave of two million gallons of molasses travels at over 50 km/h through the North End killing 21 and injuring 150.

16 January - The 18th Amendment to the American Constitution is ratified, authorizing Prohibition.

18 January - The Paris Peace Conference opens at the Palace of Versailles.

Bentley Motors Limited is founded.

Pianist and composer, Ignacy Jan Paderewski becomes the Prime Minister of Poland.

19 January - The first elections in Germany of the new Weimar Republic.

20 January - Silva Kaputikyan is born in Yerevan (d. 2006)

21 January - The first meeting of Dáil Éireann, formed by Sinn Féin MPs elected to the House of Commons, is conducted exclusively in Irish. Cathal Brugha takes the chair and calls on Father O’Flanagan to bless the proceeding. Clár Oibre Poblacánaighe, the Democratic Programme, is adopted.

   An ambush is carried out at Soloheadbeg, Co Tipperary, by Irish Volunteers. Two RIC officers are killed; Constable James McDonnell, approximately 50 years old, was from Belmullet, County Mayo, a widower with four children; and Constable Patrick O'Connell was from Coachford, County Cork, approximately 30 years old and unmarried.

25 January - The League of Nations is founded in Paris.

26 January - Stoker 1st Class John McSweeney of Fuller’s Lane, Bandon Road dies of nephritis.

The 1918 All-Ireland hurling final is held in Croke Park.

Limerick          9-5                 Wexford        1-3

27 January - A general strike is called over working hours led by engineering workers in Glasgow and Belfast.

31 January - The editorial of An t-Óglach states that the formation of Dáil Éireann “justifies Irish Volunteers in treating the armed forces of the enemy – whether soldiers or policemen – exactly as a National Army would treat the members of an invading army”

The British army is called in to deal with Scotland’s most widespread strike since 1820. Six tanks support 12,000 troops and the strikers give up their cause for a 40 hour work week after the Battle of George Square.  Ironically, Glasgow citizens gave more per capita to fund the army’s tanks when “Julian the Tank” (No. 113) made a tour of Scotland in January 1918 as a Scottish War Savings Committee initiative.  The tanks are not used against the public; their presence supporting the soldiers is enough.

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Franklin Military Academy #blackhistory #mural with William Harvey carney, Hazel Winifred Johnson-Brown, Samuel Gravely and Powhatan Beaty is complete! Thank you to the #links organization and coorperate #volunteers who supported this project #rvaarts #dmv #richmondpublicschools #wallart #historic #communitybuilding #art #artlife #painting #military #whosham #redwhiteandblue #americanflag #stars #freedom #American

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#OTD in 1887 – Birth of trade unionist and revolutionary, Winifred Carney, in Bangor, Co Down.

Close to the entrance of Milltown Cemetery is a limestone monument which marks the grave of a remarkable woman – Maria Winifred Carney. Winnie was born in Bangor, Co Down, but moved to the Falls Road in Belfast at an early age. She was born into a fairly comfortable family, and was one of seven children. Her mother and father Alfred and Sarah, were estranged, therefore, Sarah, was left to rear…

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Replay of my latest radio play for “Autant en emporte l’histoire” on Radio France.

“Winifred Carney, the Irish revolutionary”  Dir: Pascal Deux.

https://www.franceinter.fr/emissions/autant-en-emporte-l-histoire/autant-en-emporte-l-histoire-24-septembre-2017

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Replay de ma dernière pièce pour “Autant en emporte l’histoire” sur France inter. 

“Winifred Carney l’héroïne de l’indépendance irlandaise”.

Prod: Radio France. Réal: Pascal Deux 

https://www.franceinter.fr/emissions/autant-en-emporte-l-histoire/autant-en-emporte-l-histoire-24-septembre-2017

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#OTD in 1943 – Death of suffragist, trade unionist and Irish independence activist, Winifred Carney, in Belfast.

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#OTD in 1974 – Death of Róisín Madigan O’Reilly in Dingle, Co Kerry. At age 13, she became the youngest member of Cumann na mBann.

Daughter to a German-born governess (E. Hessler) and an Irish Literature Lecturer, (E. O’Reilly) Madigan O’Reilly grew up speaking German, Irish and English and travelling sporadically to Potsdam to visit her mother’s affluent relations. Both her parents were staunch republicans. Her father wrote poems and articles for ‘An Claidheamh Soluis’ and, aged just 13, Madigan O’Reilly became the youngest…

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#OTD in Irish History | 4 December:

1831 – Birth of Robert Horatio George Minty. Westport born Minty would become a Civil War Brevet Major General in the Union army. His campaigns included Chickamauga and Atlanta. Minty was in command of the Fourth Michigan Cavalry that captured fleeing Confederate President Jefferson F. Davis at Irwinsville, Georgia on 9 May 1865. 1879 – Birth of musician and composer, Sir Hamilton Harty, in…