thumb|The GPO in the aftermath of the Rising|220x220px|leftOn 14 April 1916, Connolly summoned Winifred Carney to Dublin where she prepared his mobilisation orders for the Irish Citizen Army (ICA). Ten days later, on Easter Monday, with Connolly commissioned by the IRB Military Council as Commandant of the Dublin Districts, they set out for the General Post Office (GPO) with an initial garrison party from Liberty Hall. Carney (armed with a typewriter and a Webley revolver) served as Connolly's aide de camp with the rank of adjutantWalshe, Sadhbh (2016), Eight Women of the Easter Rising The New York Times, 16 March. She was seconded in that role, for the first two days, by Connolly's 15 year-old son Roddy.
thumb|The GPO in the aftermath of the Rising|220x220px|leftOn 14 April 1916, Connolly summoned Winifred Carney to Dublin where she prepared his mobilisation orders for the Irish Citizen Army (ICA). Ten days later, on Easter Monday, with Connolly commissioned by the IRB Military Council as Commandant of the Dublin Districts, they set out for the General Post Office (GPO) with an initial garrison party from Liberty Hall. Carney (armed with a typewriter and a Webley revolver) served as Connolly's aide de camp with the rank of adjutantWalshe Sadhbh (2016), Eight Women of the Easter Rising The New York Times, 16 March. She was seconded in that role, f,or the first two days, by Connolly's 15 year-old son Roddy.