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By Seth Ferranti

June 25, 2017

Mr. Stoker was about to close the Grafton Street jewelry shop when an attractive
young lass rushed in to look at some wedding rings. It was clear the woman had
been crying. “You should not cry when you are going to be married,” he advised.
And with tears still running down her cheeks, Grace Gifford quickly bought one
of the most expensive rings in the shop and left. She had an appointment to
keep.

 
        

Grace Gifford, in a painting by William Orpen

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Those events, as recounted in Grace Gifford Plunkett and Irish Freedom: Tragic
Bride of 1916 by Marie O’Neill, took place the evening of May 3, 1916, at 6
p.m., as Gifford was whisked into Kilmainham Gaol to marry her fiancé, Joseph
Plunkett, in the gloomy precincts of Richmond Barracks. When Gifford finally saw
her husband-to-be at midnight, he was smiling and unafraid. He was eager to
marry; he was also ready — but far from eager — for what was to come: death by
firing squad. As Plunkett was brought down the steps to the prison chapel, the
guard removed his cuffs, and a chaplain performed the ceremony. Vows were
exchanged, but Grace wasn’t allowed any time with her new husband before being
hurried out of the prison.

> She became a symbol of the Republic after the Rising and during the subsequent
> War of Independence.
> 
> —author Sinead McCoole

At 2 a.m., she returned to see him a final time. They were given 10 minutes,
with plenty of guards in tow, according to Anna Clare in Unlikely Rebels: The
Gifford Girls and the Fight for Irish Freedom. A few moments to get married and
a few more to say goodbye, having been husband and wife for four short
hours. The bridegroom, a leader in the Easter Rising, was to face a firing party
in the barracks courtyard at dawn. It was “such a tragic way for any bride to
get married,” says Marita Conlon McKenna, author of Rebel Sisters. “In a prison
chapel in near darkness, unable to talk to each other. Joe unshackled briefly.
It was so romantic, sad and tragic for any woman to marry the man she loved
knowing within an hour or two he would be shot.”


The news quickly jumped the pond. On May 7, 1916, The New York Times told
readers that few tales in the Irish tragedy “have so wrung the hearts of those
who witnessed it as did this hurried joining together” of this politically
passionate couple — thus romancing the tale, humanizing the rebel leaders and
bringing worldwide attention to the Irish plight.

 

“Her marriage by candlelight — the gas supply had been cut during the Rising —
did change public opinion,” says author Sinead McCoole, who has written about
the rebellion. She was portrayed as a wife and widow and “became the subject of
ballads — a sure way of spreading the story,” she says, referring to a popular
1980s tune called “Grace” by Jim McCann. 


The wedding certificate designated Plunkett a “bachelor” and Gifford a
“spinster,” listing their occupations as “gentleman” and “artist.” Grace was
born in Dublin in 1888 and raised as a Protestant — one parent was Catholic, one
Protestant — in the suburb of Rathmines, the second youngest of 12 children.
Plunkett, the youngest of the Irish rebels, was a journalist and poet from a
wealthy home — a flamboyant young man known for wearing a silk scarf and
carrying a saber.


 
        

Men stand around surveying the devastation of the Easter Uprising in 1916.

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When Plunkett started courting Grace, he was the editor of The Irish Review, a
nationalist publication, and was secretly helping plan a rebellion against
British rule. Grace’s parents didn’t approve of Plunkett due to his health — he
had contracted tuberculosis as a child — but they fell in love and made plans to
marry at St. Stephens Green on April 23, Easter Sunday, 1916. There are
differing accounts as to why the marriage was postponed — accounts point to
Plunkett warning of the pending rebellion, while others question whether a
miscommunication meant the reading of the banns (the required public
proclamation of marriage) did not take place in time . Either way, the sound of
gunfire drowned out any chance for hearing church bells as street fights got
underway on Easter Monday.

Gifford, once painted by William Orpen as “symbolizing the youth of Ireland,”
evolved, McCoole says, into a “fantastic cartoonist with a sharp eye, a fine
artist and a nature wit.” She often attended the theater in Dublin that Plunkett
had formed with another of the leaders, Thomas MacDonagh, who married Grace’s
sister Muriel; both Gifford sisters were widowed within 24 hours of marriage. 

“Art and theater were where [Grace] belonged and outside of that she was less
confident,” says McKenna, noting how Gifford was bored with things that didn’t
interest her and was not at all political. “She did not join Cumann na mBan, the
women’s council that formed in 1914, nor the Irish Citizen Army formed by
workers whose members also took part,” McCoole points out. But after her
husband’s execution, all that changed: Grace got politicially involved, using
her heartbreak to rally people to the Republican cause.

 
        

Irish Volunteers barricade Townsend Street, Dublin, to slow down the advance of
troops during the Easter Rising.

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“She became a symbol of the Republic after the Rising and during the subsequent
War of Independence,” McCoole says. Elected to a position as a Sinn Féin
executive in 1917, Grace used her position and artistry to create propaganda for
the fledging government party. But after the Treaty debates in 1921–1922, “she
rejected the Anglo Irish Treaty and was imprisoned in Kilmainham in 1923 during
our Civil War,” says McCoole. While incarcerated, she painted a picture of the
Madonna and Child in her cell that is still visible today.

She was released after just a few months, but when the hostilities ended, she
found herself on the losing side of public opinion as an anti-Treaty Republican.
This meant she was ostracized and struggled to find work. Never remarrying,
Grace had to rely on her art to make ends meet, drawing cartoons for newspapers
and magazines. She died in 1955, and President Sean T. O’Kelly attended her
funeral at St. Kevin’s Church, paying tribute to the Irish heroine.

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