Grace Evelyn Gifford Plunkett was an Irish artist and cartoonist who was active in the Republican movement, who married her fiancé Joseph Plunkett in Kilmainham Gaol only a few hours before he was executed for his part in the 1916 Easter Rising.
Young Ireland: Grace Gifford by William Orpen, c. 1907
Gifford standing outside Kilmainham Jail on 2 May 1916
Grace Gifford's cell at Kilmainham
Gifford painted the Madonna and Child in her cell
Joseph Mary Plunkett was an Irish republican, poet and journalist. As a leader of the 1916 Easter Rising, he was one of the seven signatories to the Proclamation of the Irish Republic. Plunkett married Grace Gifford in 1916, seven hours before his execution.
Joseph Plunkett
Plunkett poem on a war memorial in Kilkenny
Image: Joseph Mary Plunkett