"Grace" was written in 1985 by Frank and Sean O'Meara. It commemorates the marriage of the artist Grace Gifford (1888 - 1955) to Joseph Mary Plunkett (1887 - 1916) in Kilmainham Jail just before midnight on 3 May 1916, hours before he was executed by the British for his leadership role in the Easter Rising. Grace was the youngest of seven children. Her father was a Catholic; her mother a Protestant. She and her sisters were raised as Protestants, their brothers as Catholics. Grace studied art in Dublin and London, returning to Dublin as illustrator and caricaturist, where she became friendly with many of the future leaders of the Rising. Grace was introduced to Joseph Plunkett in 1914. Joseph came from a prominent family, whose lineage included Oliver Plunkett, martyred in 1681. His father was a Papal Count and a Barrister, as well as being a Director of the National Museum of Science and Art. Joseph as an active member of the Irish Republican Brotherhood and as Director of Military Operations was involved in the planning of the Rising. Joseph and Grace were engaged in December 1915, planning to marry the following Easter and she became a Catholic on 7 April 1916. Grace was not aware of the planned Rising.

After the surrender, the leaders were swiftly tried and condemned to death by firing squad. Joseph told Grace that he wanted the planned wedding to continue and knowing that he was to be executed at dawn on 4 May she bought wedding rings on the afternoon of 3rd. She arrived at the jail at 6pm but was kept waiting in the prison chapel until 11.30pm when, with two soldiers as witnesses, she and Joe were married, the ceremony being performed by the Prison chaplain, Father Eugene McCarthy. Although they were not allowed any time together after the marriage Grace returned to the Prison for a ten minute meeting with Joseph in a cell packed with soldiers. At 3.30am Joe was shot, five days after the surrender. Grace never remarried. She continued her career as a successful artist, and promoting the cause of Sinn Fein. She opposed the Treaty of 1921 and was briefly imprisoned in Kilmainham Jail suspected of subversive activities against the new Free State government. She died on 13 December 1955 and is buried in Glasnevin Cemetery, near the republican plot where other famous fighters for Ireland's freedom rest.