You can find the full lyrics, chords and video on Martin dardis's site www.unitedirelandtripod.ie Jim McCann of the Dubliners had a huge hit with it in Ireland. Best version is by Irish Tenor Anthony Kearns which you can find on You Tube. Song refers to Grace Gifford who married Joseph Mary Plunkett in Kilmainen jail Dublin Just before his execution for his part, I believe in fact he was the leader, in The Easter Rising occupation of The Post Office Dublin in 1916. Plunkett prably fated to Martyrdom, he was a decendant of Blessed Oliver Plunkett an Irish saint, also executed by beheading