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Thread #5294   Message #30286
Posted By: Big Mick
07-Jun-98 - 10:17 PM
Thread Name: Tune Req: Grace or Ireland
Subject: RE: Music for Grace or Ireland
There is a Soodlums series of books, small size, probably 5x8. There are four of them, with irish pictures on the front. One in that series has the words and music to Grace. I will look up the info tomorrow for you and post it here. I know that Elderly Instruments out of Lansing, MI carries it and they have mail order. I will get you the lyrics and chords and post it to this string in the next day or two. The song is about Joseph Mary Plunket and his fiance, Grace Gifford (?). Just before he was led out by the Brits to be shot at Kilmainhem Jail for his part in the '16 Rising, he married her in his jail cell. It is a magnificent song.

Mick