Statues of both Mary Ann McCracken and Winifred Carney have been unveiled at Belfast City Hall.
Statues of two historic women activists have been unveiled at Belfast City Hall to mark International Women's Day.
Her father was a sea captain and her grandfather set up the News Letter, the world's oldest English-language daily newspaper. She died in July 1866 at the age of 96, but her grave remained unmarked until 1909 when her name and the inscription Díleas go h-éag, or Faithful Until Death, was added.Winifred Carney was born into a lower-middle class family in Bangor, County Down in 1887 to a Catholic mother and Protestant father.
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