What Do The Lyrics Mean In The Irish Ballad "GRACE"?

Question

I especially want to know what the last line of the third verse refers to.

Answer 1

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.

Answer 2

Irish Ballad

Answer 3

Grace Irish Song

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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.

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Wind that Shakes the Corn I sat within the valley green I sat with my true love My sad heart had to choose between Old Ireland and my love I looked at her and then I thought How Ireland was torn While soft the wind blew down the glen And shook the golden corn T'was hard the woeful words to bring To break the ties that bound But harder still to bear the shame Of English chains around And so I said, the mountain glen I'll seek in early morn And join the brave united men While soft winds shook the corn While sad I kissed away her tears My fond arms round her clung A British shot burst in our ears From out of the wild woods round One bullet pierced my true love's side A rose pierced by a thorn And in my arms in blood she died While soft winds shook the corn So blood for blood without remorse I've taken in the glen I placed my true love's clayful corpse I joined true Irish men But around her grave I wander drear Sometimes in early morn And with breaking heart sometimes I hear The wind that shakes the corn

Answer 6

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