Monday, September 26, 2011


The cell of Joseph Plunkett's wife, Grace Gifford.

Joseph married his sweetheart, Grace Gifford, in the prison chapel only hours before his execution by firing squad. He was 28 years old.




Grace was herself incarcerated in Kilmainham for three months in 1923. An artist, she painted this mural of the Madonna and Child on the wall of her jail cell.