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The remarkable true story of Winifred Carney, secretary to the Irish revolutionary leader James Connolly, and her husband George McBride, a staunch unionist. This is the previously untold story of two individuals who lived remarkable lives, both before and after their paths crossed. Enhanced with dramatised dialogue, it is a powerful lesson in how love, once discovered, can be greater than the sum of our divisions. Winnie and George came from different backgrounds and lived opposing lives. She was a Roman Catholic; he belonged to the Church of Ireland. She was a republican; he was a unionist. She was a member of Cumann na mBan; he had been in the Young Citizen Volunteers loyalist group. She carried a Webley gun in the GPO during the Easter Rising; he fought for the British Army at the Somme during the Great War. However, both shared a passion for fairness and the rights of the working class. Despite living in a Belfast rife with sectarian tension and oppostition from both their families a very unlikely, yet successful, marriage took place.
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