'Grace' Ireland's Most Heartbreaking Story
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 30 ม.ค. 2023
- This is the tragic story of Grace Gifford and Joseph Mary Plunkett.
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I just visited Ireland, I must say that I got flabbergasted how amazing the country is. Kindest people and lovely culture. I am so happy for your independence!!
You do Ireland proud,, explain things very clearly and tell the history of Ireland so that countries around the world are able to understand how Ireland has suffered over the years 🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪
I'm named after the song Grace, what an honor to be named after this song, a significant part of our history 🇮🇪💔🙂
What an honour indeed! 💚
My grandmother was a triplet also known as the republican triplets her name was kathleen Fullerton the triplets godmothers were Constance Marchieviz Dr kathleen lynn and Grace gifford each of the triplets were called after there godmothers how cool is that !!!
Love the song
This is one i want played at my funeral 💚🇮🇪💚
Am from Manchester and I love this song 🎵 amazing ❤
I was singing this song when I visited Kilmainham Gaol last year. What an incredible experience.
Just this last St. Patrick's day outside of Philadelphia (Delco... we have a Saturday night live episode dedicated to us....lol). We marched in a local Irish-American parade run by a local heritage organization that my family has been part of for a long time. Afterwards we had a party in a VFW and I herd an Irish-American and an Irishman preform this song. The man explained the story just as you did and the crowd was silent. It was a wonderful song, performance, and a wonderful day.
Also, thank you for defending Irish-Americans. Its tough hearing "You are not Irish because you herd of a story of a great grand...."
There are still Irish and Italian-American communities wrapped around ever east coast city to Chicago. We are not constantly throwing our heritage in peoples faces or using it to be ignorant to others, though there are plenty that do outside these areas. There are great communities of people of Irish decent over here that have influences everything from town names to whole sections of cities.
I am a 30 year old male from Sharon Hill, Pennsylvania in Delaware County (Delco) and I am 85% Irish.
My family came here during the famine... The DNA persists and we live in a melting pot so a lot of American state identity differently than others.
We are not all 14% screaming that we are Irish. Though there are plenty that do.
We don't state we are Irish in the sense of being an Irish-national
You understand this and you help teach folks.
You are awesome lol
I am getting married next year and I get to finally see the hills of Ireland. That will be pretty nice haha
ALSO! If you don't know of the Molly Maguires of Schuylkill County, PA. Check em out! Sean Connery plays in the movie about them.
I love when I hear American people being proud of there Irish ancestry, love from co tip 🇮🇪🇺🇸
Much love! Many proud Irish people all over the world! @@deborahmcgee7970 😁
I've heard Emmet Cahill sing "Grace"
He does a very moving version. He's an Irish solo artist that also sings with Celtic Thunder ❤
A beautiful song it seems to have been around a lot longer than 85.
Excellent telling of the story! I first heard this song from Tony Kenny, when touring the old Jury's Irish Cabaret show in America, in the 1990s. I've loved it ever since.
Sad story
Absolutely buddy
Good on you man for bringing up your history and story of this special love. And of course great choice to pick Jim McCann's performance for background ♥
RIP Brave patriot 😔😔🙏🏻🙏🏻 One of so many 😪😪🙏🏻 Ireland will never see such bravery and courage ever again 😪😪🙏🏻🙏🏻💜
Ireland Will if needed.
I’ve always been fascinated by the story, but a little troubled by how he explains to Grace why he is there. She was a great supporter of Sinn Fein policies and spent time in Kilmainham gall herself. She never joined Cumann na Mban because guns terrified her.
This is my favourite song, I’ve been in Ireland since 2022 and I fell in love with Irish culture, history and music.
I’m Brazilian and I’m glad to see and learn about this country, and it is definitely part of my life and heart.
I’m also learning Irish hahahaha.
Thank you for all your videos!
Go raibh maith agat!!!!
Powerful song and the history of the moment with them plus the connection they had ❤
Now, I am off to listen to my favorite cover of Grace.
I am from Brazil and i start to study Irish Culture and Music a few years now but nowdays i am more and more into it. So this channel is a massive help. Thank you so much!!
Thank you so much! Really glad you are enjoying it 🇧🇷💚
Love love love this tune!
A few days ago I learned about a person being very sick who used to be very important to me. She and her sister would sing this song so beautifully. So when I heard about the one sister being sick I remembered the song and started playing it myself. I did a lot of research and must have listened to the song about 100 times by now but only with your explanation of the story I finally understand the background of the line "I had to leave my own sick bed...". Thanks for that! What I still don't quite understand is the line with "his blood upon the rose". I am hoping to get behind that at some point :)
This is a reference to the poem I See His Blood Upon The Rose written by Joseph Mary Plunkett himself. The poem is about the importance and intensity of his religious beliefs. He saw God everywhere:
I see his blood upon the rose
And in the stars the glory of his eyes,
His body gleams amid eternal snows,
His tears fall from the skies.
I heard that song before and I visited the site years ago. Thank you for explaining the songs meaning. I wish I had known that before visiting Dublin! Im from Frankfurt and start licking the song mote now!
I don't know if this story can be made into a mini series or a two - two in a half hour movie by most modern standards but I'd watch it.
Really? I could do that
@@davyholden I'd be nice change of pace from the very safe cookie cutter or slightly fabricated that's out there.
I like the way you explain about Irish history👍
This song (as well as Killkelly, Ireland) are real tear jerkers.
Thank you for this. I love it even more now!
I like the Paddy Reilly version of the song.
Another song in tragic Irish love song category is the late, great Andy M Stewart's Island of Sorrows.
Lovely song! Please talk about the devil is dead
a great song with great sentiment .as a english person .my heart goes out to the brave irish people and wish them well for the future of there country after all we are one.
They were horrible times in Ireland. Absolutely brutal. 💚
No, we are not one, we will never be until the North is repatriated.
@@merson812 with your attitude there will never be a re-united ireland with the likes of the murderous ira/sinn fein around
Awh 😢 😔 😭 A Chara 💪 🇮🇪 you went there..... Respect 😎
Hey bud love this channel
Very good video davy should beautiful song 💚☘️🇮🇪🤴👸
There's another song, "Joseph Mary" sang by Shaun McCafferty. It's like "Grace" but from Grace's perspective.
Must check that out
I didn't know this thank you for that 🙏🧡
Good stuff friend.
Always a great song Only got really popular after 2016 imo. Plus celtic started singing it hail hail
Excellent , maith an fear 👏👏👏👏👏👏
Thank you!
Hello Davey. I just dropped by chance on this one tonight. Like the written word I've sent ye, I can do the same with with songs and tunes. They would be all CDs, but might have to be cleaned up with the "toothpaste" method . But I think there may be a bit of rare stuff among them.
"Grace" just being one you will find among them. Give me some little time to forward forward to you.
Warmest regards, Mel
Keep this up, great content man. From a descendant in Canada
Thanks so much my friend 😁
Really enjoyed this story
Thank you
No mi è appena arrivata la notifica ma in ritardo 😭
rod stewart sings THIS !!!!xx
How about covering the song"A Rebel Heart"?
This is the first time that I have seen anyone (other than me) bring out the MacDonagh - Gifford connection. No someone needs to give Nellie Gifford (there were six sisters) her due. She was aide de camp to Constance Markievicz during the Rising. She was also the "nurse" who smuggled Jim Larkin into The Imperial Hotel to address the crowd during the 1913 Lockout. There are a couple of books about the sisters but I would recommend Rebel Sisters by Marita McKenna Conlon. I am not exactly disinterested. I am the grandson of Thomas and Muriel MacDonagh and so grandnephew to the Gifford sisters. I am also grandnephew to the six Gifford brothers (pity the poor mother) but they all stayed loyal to the crown and are pretty much forgotten.
Yes people do tend to forget or dont know that Grace lost 2 men in her life over that 24 hrs on 3 and 4 May. They also forget to mention that Muriel MacDonagh died just some 14 months after the Rising in a swimming incident at Skerries whilst out swimming with one of James Connolly's daughters. Sadly at the time I believe Donagh MacDonagh was in hospital when Muriel died, leaving the children Donagh and Barbara MacDonagh as orphans. Such as sad history but one that should be told.
@@Imyourhuckleberry01 Yes, my Dad was in the hospital with TB at the time of his mother's drowning. He remembered being help up to a window so he could see the funeral procession. He was told what a glorious thing the funeral was with 4,000 volunteers in the procession. He was just four at the time and did not really understand what the funeral was.
@@niallmac44 Yes, thank you. I assume then Nuala is your mother rather than her sister Maura Smyth who Donagh married after Maura's tragic death in 1939? I am English by the way so please excuse me if I have this wrong, but Muriel's story is something I have always been interested in. I believe there is also a specific ring involved in the story which was buried with Muriel.
I would always say green fields of France .
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For some reason I cant focus and pay attention to your videos from start to finish. Maybe you give too much information too quickly. Maybe the music in the background drowns you out.
The leaders of the Rising, define Montley Crew
The FOGGY DUE