Grace

"Grace" performed by Dr Toby Gilbert at Beaumont Hospitals 21st Birthday Celbreations.

Photos from the night here:

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A song aboutt the marraige of Joesph Mary Plunket and Grace Clifford hours before Plunkets execution in 1916.

Plunkett was one of the original members of the IRB Military Committee that was responsible for planning the rising, and it was largely his plan that was followed. As such he may be held partially responsible for the military disaster that ensued, though one should realize that in the circumstances any plan was bound to fail. Shortly before the rising was to begin, Plunkett was hospitalized following a turn for the worse in his health. He had an operation on his neck glands days before Easter and had to struggle out of bed to take part in what was to follow. Still bandaged, he took his place in the General Post Office with several other of the rising's leaders such as Patrick Pearse and Tom Clarke, though his health prevented him from being terribly active. His energetic aide de camp was Michael Collins.

Following the surrender Plunkett was held in Kilmainham Gaol, and faced a court martial. Hours before his execution by firing squad at the age of 28, he was married in the prison chapel to his sweetheart Grace Gifford, a Protestant convert to Catholicism, whose sister, Muriel, had years before also converted and married his best friend Thomas MacDonagh, who was also executed for his role in the Easter Rising.

As we gather in the chapel here in old Kilmainham Jail
I think about these past few weeks, oh will they say we've failed
From our schooldays they have told us we must yearn for liberty
Yet all I want in this dark place is to have you here with me.

Chorus: Oh Grace just hold me in your arms ad let this moment linger
They'll take me out at dawn and I will die
With all my love I place this wedding ring upon your finger
There won't be time to share our love for we must say goodbye.

Now I know it's hard for you my love to ever understand
The love I bear for these brave men, my love for this dear land
But when the Padhraic called me to his side down in the GPO
I had to leave my own sick bed, to him I had to go

Chorus

Now as dawn is breaking, my heart is breaking too,
On this May morn as I walk out my thoughts well be of you
And I'll write some words upon the wall so everyone will know
I love so much that I could see his blood upon the rose.

Chorus

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[wilmaohman]

awesome voice,beautiful haunting song. sad son about 2 star crossed lovers

[milkybar100]

hey tobi. its dean preston here.. nice singin i really enjoyed this good wrok, keep it up.

[GlasgowCeltic88]

Daragh.

Nice version.

Always great to see amateur versions of such a beautiful & emotional song being posted here.

If you ever get the chance I'd seriously recommend a visit to Kilmainham Goal, the Chapel & the Stonebreakers Yard. The atmosphere surrounding the whole Goal is something else again...

Thanks for posting a chara.

5*'s

Slán,

GC88