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Of all the great men and women of that era, was there a more gallant figure than Joseph Mary Plunkett, or a more hopeless love than that of Plunkett and Grace Gifford? They were to be married in a church on St Stephen’s Green on April 23, Easter Sunday, 1916, but history intervened.
Read the rest of this great love story HERE
She never married again and died alone in 1955. She was buried with full military honors and the president attended her funeral.
Their poignant story was commemorated in an oft-recorded song, “Grace”, written in 1985 by Frank and Seán O’Meara. Rod Stewart made the song famous years later.
