Irish Ballads
What Do The Lyrics Mean In The Irish Ballad “GRACE”?
I especially want to know what the last line of the third verse refers to.
This song is about Joseph Mary Plunkett a poet who took part in the rising and was stationed in the General Post Office in Dublin on Easter Monday 1916. When the rising failed and the Irish surrendered they were imprisoned in Kilmainham Jail. Plunkett had planned to marry Grace Gifford on Easter Sunday but because of the rising and his own ilness (he was hopitalised for tuberculosis), the wedding was postponed. He married her in the prison chapel just hours before he was executed on May 4th 1916. He was aged 28.
The last line of the third verse
“So I’ll write these words upon the wall so everyone will know
I loved so much that I could see his blood upon the rose”
is a reference to one of his poems ‘I See His Blood upon the Rose’
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 see his face in every flower;
The thunder and the singing of the birds
Are but his voice — and carven by his power
Rocks are his written words.
All pathways by his feet are worn,
His strong heart stirs the ever-beating sea,
His crown of thorns is twined with every thorn,
His cross is every tree.
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