Joseph Plunkett
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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 marrie
Joseph Plunkett
Plunkett c. 1910
Plunkett poem on a war memorial in Kilkenny
Grace Gifford
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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 exe
Joseph Plunkett
…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 was born on 21 November 1887 at 26 Upper Fitzwilliam Street in one of Dublin's most affluent…
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