Winifred Carney (1887-1943)
Maria Winifred Carney, known as Winnie Carney, was born in Bangor, the youngest of six children. Her parents were Sarah Carney, née Cassidy and her father Alfred Carney, a Protestant and commercial traveller. Her parents’ marriage broke up and Carney lived with her mother and brother in Carlisle Circus, north Belfast.
She qualified as a secretary and for a time worked as a clerk in a solicitor’s office. In her early twenties, she became involved in the Gaelic League and also in suffrage and socialist activities in Belfast, together with her friend Marie Johnson, whose husband Thomas was later to become leader of the Irish Labour Party. Marie worked as secretary for the Irish Textile Workers’ Union, set up by James Connolly in 1911 as the women’s section of the Belfast Transport and General Workers Union, and when she became ill in 1912, she asked Carney to take over her work as secretary for the union. Carney and Connolly co-wrote the Manifesto to the Linen Slaves of Belfast in 1913.
As a committed nationalist Carney also became an active member of the Belfast branch of Cumann na mBan when it was formed, together with Nora and Ina Connolly. Connolly sent for her before the Easter Rising began, and she provided secretarial support to the leadership, typing up despatches and other messages. Carney was the first woman to enter the GPO, as a member of the Irish Citizen Army and aide-de-camp to James Connolly. She surrendered together with the Republican leadership and was imprisoned in England for a time afterwards.
Carney stood unsuccessfully for Sinn Fein on a Workers’ Republic platform in east Belfast in the 1918 election. The venerable nationalist poet Alice Milligan was one of her supporters.
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What Makes Granite White?
White granite contains a high percentage of quartz and feldspar, which gives it a milky off-white and somewhat
opaque appearance.Many white granite memorials also contain black spots of different sizes which is likely
due to the presence of small amphibole grains.
What Makes Granite Black & White?
Some granite has an equal blend of both black and white, and though this isn’t as commonly used in the specific
creation of memorials, the colour combination is due to an equal amount of quartz, feldspar and amphibole.
What Makes Granite Grey?
Grey granite gets its colour from a high ratio of colourless quartz that reflects the other various dark and
light-coloured minerals surrounding it.
What Makes Granite Pink?
Pink granite gets its salmon tone from a high percentage of the potassium feldspar mineral. Within the material
of pink granite, you can often see small specks of semi-transparent milky quartz, dark specks of amphibole,
and opaque white feldspar.
What Makes Granite Red?
Red granite is rich in potassium feldspar, just like pink granite, only with red granite the feldspar produces a
colour that’s more akin to a shade of red rather than pink.It also often appears as a more orangey red.
Iron oxide is also present in hematite grains within the feldspar, and this can also add a red hue to the colour
of the granite.
What Makes Granite Yellow?
Yellow granite gets its yellow or goldish colouring from muscovite, which is a member of the mica mineral group.
Some granites have just a hint of a light-yellow hue, while others are a deeper shade of yellow, or appear as
more of a beige hue or even gold.
What Makes Granite Brown?
Brown granite gets its colouring from the presence of biotite minerals within the mica group.
Many brown granite memorials often have a red hue due to a blend of pinkish-brown feldspar crystals.
What Makes Granite Blue?
Blue granite receives its blue colouring from a high concentration of sodalite within the rock.
Sodalite is a blue coloured mineral that mainly consists of aluminosilicate and chloride of sodium.
Other blue coloured igneous rocks, such as larvikite or anorthosite, are also often referred to as a type of
“blue granite”, although they are not actually granite rocks.
What Makes Granite Green?
Green granite can get its colour from amazonite, also known as amazonstone, which is a variety of potassium
feldspar.Granite that contains a lot of amphibole can also result in a dark green colour.
Like many blue granites, green granites are often referred to as “green granite” even though it is often not granite.
It is often a green soapstone that’s marketed as green granite, or a variation of marble containing serpentine,
as actual green granite is rare.
1) Looking at the plinth, Which number in the granite chart best describes the colour of granite on top of the plinth?
2) Using the granite decriptions above what causes these colours?
3) On the photo above of Winnie ive blanked out a section of the limestone fascia containing a crystallised fossil. What shape, colour and size is this?
4) Upload a photo of yourself or tag at Winnie without giving anything away.
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As the fossil is quite hard to find for some, I've uploaded a picture to the gallery with more detail as to where to look. Wet the slab for better view if need be.