GRACE BY AN IRISH SINGER @ O’DONOGHUE’S BAR - DUBLIN
September 132009
A spectator jumped on “stage”.
Grace
When Grace Gifford, the sister-in-law of Tomas MacDonagh, picked Easter Sunday 1916 as the date on which she was to marry Joseph Plunkett she had obviously no idea of the tragic events ahead of them.
Days before the planned wedding Joseph Plunkett, who suffered his entire life under respiration troubles, was admitted to the hospital and underwent an emergency operation.
On Easter Monday 1916, the day after the postponed wedding, Plunkett manned his post in the General Post Office (GPO) in Dublin to take part in the Easter Rising.
After the surrender of the rebels Joseph Plunkett was arrested and imprisoned in Kilmainham Gaol. Just hours before his execution on 4 May 1916 he married Grace Gifford in the jail chapel with two prison guards as witnesses.
Grace Gifford remained involved in the republican movement, especially in Sinn Féin, while earning a living as commercial artist.
She voted against the Anglo-Irish Treaty, which divided Ireland in Saorstát Éireann, or Irish Free State, and Northern Ireland, and during the Civil War she was imprisoned in Kilmainham Gaol for three months.
After the Civil War Gifford became a respected member of Dublin’s cultural society until she died on 13 December 1955. Grace Gifford was buried on Glasnevin Cemetery with full military honour.
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Irish Celtic Music Solid Ground Dolores Keane Frances Black Sharon Shannon
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Different versions of the same tune
Here are a few Irish tunes from my father and brother and friends. They raised money for a local food patry.
A great Gwendal’s song.
This video is of the Cincinnati Royal Scottish Country Dance Society Demo Team at the Cincinnati Fine Arts Sampler of 2008. The venue was the Gallery Level of Newport on the Levee in Newport, KY. February 9th, 2008
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Song:Fhir An Bhata