On Good friday, Belfast 32csm laid a wreath in honour of Charlie Monaghan at Short Strand memorial garden.
Charlie Monaghan, a member of the Gaelic league and Irish republican brotherhood joined the Irish volunteers 2nd batallion Dublin brigade, originally from Ballymacarret he died on good Friday 1916 in a car accident near Ballykissane pier on active service along with 3 other volunteers.
On easter Saturday, members of Belfasts WolfeTone/McCracken cumann 32CSM laid a wreath at the grave of Winifred Carney.
Maria Winifred Carney, known as Winnie, was a suffragist, trade unionist and Irish independence activist. Born in Bangor, County Down, her family moved to the Falls Road in Belfast when she was a child.
She was present with Connolly in theDublin General Post Office during theEaster Rising in 1916. Carney was the only woman present during the initial occupation of the building, which she entered armed with a typewriter and aWebley 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 her capture, she was held inKilmainham Gaol and later interned in Aylesbury with Nell Ryan and Helena Moloney. The three requested that theirinternee status, and the privileges it brought, be revoked so that they would be held as normal prisoners with Countess Markievicz. Their request was denied but she was released in December 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.
Carney died in 1943 after a long illness and is now buried in Belfasts Milltown Cemetery.
