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16 May 98 - 03:07 AM (#28489) Subject: Lyr Add: GRACE (Frank & Sean O'Meara) From: Ezio GRACE (Frank & Sean O'Meara) As we gather in the chapel here in old Kilmainham Jail Chorus Now I know it's hard for you my love to ever understand Chorus Now as dawn is breaking, my heart is breaking too, Chorus ^^ Note: This song was written in 1985 by Frank & Sean O'Meara. -Joe Offer- Click for related thread |
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16 May 98 - 08:39 AM (#28506) Subject: RE: LYR ADD: Grace From: Brack& If ever you have a trip to Dublin, visit Kilmainham Jail and do the tour. You'll learn the story of this lovely song. Joseph Plunkett was arrested for taking part in the Easter rising in Dudlin 1916. On May 3rd in the evening he was allowed to marry Grace Gifford in the prison chapel. The couple were then separated. Next morning she was summoned to say goodbye to her husband of a few hours. They spoke for about ten minutes and then Joseph was executed. (shot) The line that says " I had to leave my own sick bed" refers to the fact that Joseph was suffering from TB at the time. The last verse mentions the blood upon the rose which was the title of a poem by Joseph which was taught in Irish Schools according to my mother! The blood upon the rose is a reference to Christ's blood. Mick |
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19 May 98 - 02:30 AM (#28656) Subject: RE: LYR ADD: Grace From: Ezio Thanx Brack& for your comments - now I can understand better this beautiful song. Ciao |
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05 Jul 99 - 10:23 PM (#92705) Subject: RE: LYR ADD: Grace From: MissMac Does any one know were to get a copy of the poem by Joseph that Brack& was talking about? Is it still taught in Irish schools? My partner sings this song and I would like to see the poem to see if it could be used in conjunction with the song. curiosity strikes again. MissMac Click Here, Miss Mac - "Blood Upon the Rose" |
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06 Jul 99 - 01:07 PM (#92893) Subject: RE: LYR ADD: Grace From: Hummybird Have you heard Tony Kearns (the Irish Tenors, what a voice!) sing that? It is so touching. Brack&, Do you know what the GPO is? By the way, if you're in the Phila. area, the Tenors will be in concert there this month. |
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06 Jul 99 - 01:12 PM (#92896) Subject: RE: LYR ADD: Grace From: SingsIrish Songs Bet it is a sold out event! (Irish Tenors) |
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07 Jul 99 - 10:33 AM (#93084) Subject: RE: LYR ADD: Grace From: Wolfgang GPO: general post office, rebels' headquarter and site of the proclamation of the Irish Republic in 1916 Wolfgang |
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07 Jul 99 - 03:05 PM (#93175) Subject: RE: LYR ADD: Grace From: Hummybird Thank you. I'll be seeing the Irish Tenors concert in Phila. this month. After all this talk about "Grace", I sure hope they perform that song. For anyone's interested, they're on tour in the NY, PA, Conn. area this month. (Ticketmaster would have the dates and places) |
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07 Jul 99 - 03:14 PM (#93178) Subject: RE: LYR ADD: Grace From: Joe Offer Anybody know who wrote "Grace," and when? I have a recording from Paddy Reilly that credits it to "O'Meara/O'Meara Asdee Music" - does anybody have full information? Know of other recordings of the song? -Joe Offer- |
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08 Jul 99 - 02:32 AM (#93344) Subject: RE: LYR ADD: Grace From: MudGuard It was also recorded by "The Fighting Men From Crossmaglen" on their "50 Complete Irish Rebel Songs" album (don't know why it says complete: most songs on this recordings are known to have more verses, and sure there are more than these 50 Irish rebel songs...). |
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08 Jul 99 - 07:23 AM (#93367) Subject: RE: LYR ADD: Grace From: In the last verse of this song, to what does the line "And I'll write some words upon the wall so everyone will know" refer? |
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08 Jul 99 - 12:41 PM (#93417) Subject: RE: LYR ADD: Grace From: SingsIrish Songs Here's the link to the thread re Joseph Plunkett's poem referred to in the song "Grace". (just to tie the related threads together.) Thread name: Blood Upon the Rose - poem by Joseph Plunkett |
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09 Jul 99 - 10:08 AM (#93671) Subject: RE: LYR ADD: Grace From: Frank still looking for an answer to this question: In the last verse of this song, to what does the line "And I'll write some words upon the wall so everyone will know" refer? Anyone??? |
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11 Jul 99 - 07:02 PM (#94206) Subject: RE: LYR ADD: Grace From: Martin _Ryan FranK As in most prisons, I suspect, the walls of Kilmainham Jail are covered wiht the graffiti of generations of prisoners! Regards |
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12 Jul 99 - 03:20 AM (#94301) Subject: RE: LYR ADD: Grace From: Joe Offer Did we come up with a name of the songwriter and date of composition for "Grace"? -Joe Offer- |
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13 Jul 99 - 08:08 PM (#94902) Subject: RE: LYR ADD: Grace From: Hummybird Joe: From my Irish Tenors CD, the songwriters are Frank & Sean O'Meara, not dated. |
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28 Oct 99 - 10:32 AM (#128967) Subject: ' Grace '. From: civwar@webtv.net Lyrics to Grace as was performed by Antony Kearns |
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28 Oct 99 - 10:44 AM (#128974) Subject: ADD: Grace^^^ From: Frank Howe a beautiful song GRACE
As we gather in the chapel here in old Kilmainham Jail
Chorus
Now I know it's hard for you my love to ever understand
Chorus
Now as the dawn is breaking, my heart is breaking too, Chorus ^^^ |
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28 Oct 99 - 11:18 AM (#128995) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: ' Grace '. From: DonMeixner There is a thread on this song in the the files. Do a search and you should have more info on Grace than you expect. I think the chords are there too. Don |
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08 Feb 00 - 04:28 PM (#175169) Subject: RE: LYR ADD: Grace From: JedMarum Joseph Plunkett was a poet and a scholar. He had a passion for the mystic poets; St Francis, John Donne ... he was passionate, likewise for the cause of Ireland's freedom, and turn out to be an unlikley, and perhaps unsuitable military leader. His acts of bravery and love in the final days of life are commemorated in this most beautiful of songs ... which are taken in part, from his very own verse. Plunkett gave his life for a cause he believed in, and Frank & Sean O'Meara have given the world a gift in this song not so much about Plunkett's acts, as much as his love. The song tells a moving story. |
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08 Feb 00 - 04:41 PM (#175178) Subject: RE: LYR ADD: Grace From: JedMarum by the way ... I have to say this is the loveliest song I have ever heard. |
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08 Feb 00 - 08:07 PM (#175284) Subject: RE: LYR ADD: Grace From: JedMarum I believe the last verse reference, "And I'll write some words upon the wall so everyone will know" is the author's way to tie Plunkett's own words, to the song. As said in the thread above, it is not uncommon for the "I was here" sort of graffiti to accumulate in prison cells, and as we know, the real Joseph Plunkett penned a poem that in deed left behind his deepest thoughts to share with others ... and that poem expressed the thought that he 'loved so much that he could see His blood upon the rose' I believe the author pictures Plunkett penning those words on the prison cell walls. |
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08 Feb 00 - 09:35 PM (#175321) Subject: Lyr Add: THE PLANETS SEVEN (Joseph Mary Plunkett) From: McGrath of Harlow Joseph Mary Plunkett. I've got a battered selection of his poems I picked up in a junk shop in Clonmel. It must have been printed fairly soon after he was shot - because it talks of him as being dead, buit never mentions the circumstances of his death. Wartime censorship I imagine.
Anyway, here's a ballad he wrote that's included in the introduction written by his sister Geraldine. I've never seen it anywhere else:
There's many a flower in a heavy shower
If the stars lack teachers, or ever a preacher "The flowers of heaven and earth are the same flowers."
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09 Feb 00 - 08:48 AM (#175466) Subject: RE: LYR ADD: Grace From: JedMarum have you ever heard this ballad sung? |
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09 Feb 00 - 02:44 PM (#175689) Subject: RE: LYR ADD: Grace From: McGrath of Harlow Never heard it sung - the only place I've found it is in that introduction by Geraldine Plunkett - it's one of two included there (she reckoned that they would have been "out of place in the text", presumably since it's a song rather than a poem as such)). It was originally published in the National Student, the magazine of the students of the University of Dublin.
The other one included is "The Foot and Mouth", which appears in Colm O Lochlann's Irtish Streets Ballads, with the tune given as "The Groves of Blarney". That would fit to this one as well, since the metre is identical. (I'll post the Foot and Mouth ballad here soon - what with the Mad Cow disease it's got a new kind of topicality.)
And there's a third ballad "better than either of these which follow, that it is perhaps too soon to publish." I think that has to mean it is more directly to do with rebellion. If anyone can point me to it anywhere, I'd love to see it. |
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05 Feb 01 - 02:25 PM (#390604) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: grace From: Mrs.Duck I love that song. We visited Kilmainham jail on our honeymoon and I wept buckets sitting in the little capel and thinking of those words. In fact filling up now. Can't remember the tune for the verse though. Is that on the digitrad I'll check. |
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05 Feb 01 - 02:49 PM (#390629) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: grace From: Mrs.Duck No it isn't and every other site I look at just has the chorus tune. If I ever do find it listen on paltalk and I will try to do it justice. |
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05 Feb 01 - 03:29 PM (#390667) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: grace From: Don Firth OhMyGawd! Some of the things that pop up on Mudcat are downright miraculous! The first time I heard Grace was in the broadcast of "The Irish Tenors" during a KCTS Channel 9 (PBS) pledge break a couple years ago, sung by Anthony Kearns. I had to have it!. The next time the show came on I videotaped it, but the tape itself was bad. Several months later, during another pledge break, I got a good tape of the program. With other things intruding, I didn't get around to the laborious process of playing the tape and writing down the words, but just a few days ago I decided to go for it an easier way. I tossed my ethics out the window and downloaded Grace sung by Anthony Kearns from Napster. This afternoon I was going to play the cut on the computer and sit here typing the words as Kearns sang it. But I decided to see what was going on at Mudcat first, and there it was! Just saved me a bunch of typing.
I'm not even sure I can do the song for two reasons: Wish me luck. And Thank You Thank You Thank You!! Don Firth
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05 Feb 01 - 06:05 PM (#390852) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: grace From: Sarah2 Don, Kearns' rendition is good, but, tell you true, I've heard better. You put your heart in it, you'll be doing it justice. The object is to share the song, not the voice. My snotty little opinion. Sarah |
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05 Feb 01 - 06:08 PM (#390855) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: grace From: Sarah2 Don, Kearns' rendition is good, but, tell you true, I've heard better. You put your heart in it, you'll be doing it justice. The object is to share the song, not the voice. My snotty little opinion. Sarah |
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05 Feb 01 - 06:21 PM (#390866) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: grace From: Sarah2 So snotty I had to say it twice... Sarah |
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06 Feb 01 - 03:39 PM (#391586) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: grace From: Mrs.Duck Thanks for directing me to Napster. I have just downloaded Kearns version and I think I too have heard better but it is still beautiful and I have sobbed my way through it. I suspect I may have to work on it a bit before I can sing it without breaking into tears but I WILL because I love it!! |
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07 Feb 01 - 02:08 AM (#391922) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: grace From: Seamus Kennedy Our own Jed Marum has recorded it on his new CD. Excellent version. All the best. Seamus |
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07 Feb 01 - 01:20 PM (#392298) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: grace From: JedMarum Thanks, Seamus. This is a wonderful song, and moving story. I first heard about the song when reading a history of the Michael Collins/Irish Civil War era. Then I hunted it down, and found first the Anthony Kearns version, later others. The song is one of my favorites. |
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07 Feb 01 - 01:41 PM (#392322) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: grace From: Sarah2 And a fine job you did with it, Jed. I loaned my copy to Danna to listen to, before your New Direction posting, in hopes of getting the LCN entertainment committee to get you back for the festival as a single act. Death threats went with it, and I'm already hinting she should get it back SOON. Sarah |
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20 Sep 08 - 07:17 AM (#2445800) Subject: RE: LYR ADD: Grace From: GUEST,ray could any one tell me the finger play order as im learning this as my first song on guitar.ta. |
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20 Sep 08 - 09:34 AM (#2445857) Subject: RE: LYR ADD: Grace From: goatfell it is a lovely song I was brought up as a protestant but now I'm a Christain so I don't have the baggages that both Catholics and Protestants have, because when you're a born again Christian, you have that burden taken away and you wake up every morning with a new mind set. |
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21 Jun 09 - 04:25 PM (#2661648) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Grace (Frank & Sean O'Meara) From: GUEST,Darren O'Meara I am the son of Frank O.Meara who wrote Grace with his Brother my uncle sean. the Line in the last verse refers to the poem Joseph Mary Plunkett himself wrote I see His Blood upon the rose. |
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15 Jan 10 - 03:06 AM (#2812393) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Grace (Frank & Sean O'Meara) From: GUEST,Sara Does anybody know where I can find a backing track for this song? Its on of my favorites, but apparently I need a backing track for it for my Junior Cert music practical. Thanks in advance. |
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11 May 10 - 10:11 PM (#2904904) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Grace (Frank & Sean O'Meara) From: GUEST,Jack I heard this song for the first time, sung live, in Ireland, Limerick as I recall. It was sung by the group "Celtic Whisper". I've since heard it sung by others, but I guess first time's a charm. Good luck finding it though. The guitar tabs are now available on Ultimate Guitar, but you must locate it by performing the search using the names of Frank and Seam O'Meara before the title Grace. |
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28 May 11 - 06:12 AM (#3161675) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Grace (Frank & Sean O'Meara) From: GUEST,Li First time I heard this song I was in Ireland sittin at a friends house with a few lads an they were all goin around naming off songs , and singin em this was one of da first they sang and it nearly had me in tears his voice was so beautiful as was the song . |
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25 Sep 13 - 09:24 PM (#3561334) Subject: RE: Tune Req: Grace, Irish Song From: GUEST I heard that his widow never remarried and died in 1969 |
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25 Sep 13 - 09:51 PM (#3561340) Subject: DT Corr: Grace (Frank & Sean O'Meara) From: Joe Offer Here are the lyrics as they appear in the Digital Tradition. I see there's no songwriter attribution, so that should be added, along with the MIDI. I've underlines some corrections I made. Any other corrections? -Joe- GRACE (Frank & Sean O'Meara) As we gather in the chapel here in old Kilmainham Jail I think about these past few weeks, oh will they say we've failed From our schooldays they have told us we must yearn for liberty Yet all I want in this dark place is to have you here with me. CHORUS Oh Grace just hold me in your arms and let this moment linger They'll take me out at dawn and I will die With all my love I place this wedding ring upon your finger There won't be time to share our love for we must say goodbye. Now I know it's hard for you my love to ever understand The love I bear for these brave men, my love for this dear land But when the Padhraic called me to his side down in the GPO I had to leave my own sick bed, to him I had to go Chorus Now as dawn is breaking, my heart is breaking too, On this May morn as I walk out my thoughts well be of you And I'll write some words upon the wall so everyone will know I love so much that I could see his blood upon the rose. Chorus If ever you have a trip to Dublin, visit Kilmainham Jail and do the tour. You'll learn the story of this lovely song. Joseph Plunkett was arrested for taking part in the Easter rising in Dublin 1916. On May 3rd in the evening he was allowed to marry Grace Gifford in the prison chapel. The couple were then separated. Next morning she was summoned to say goodbye to her husband of a few hours. They spoke for about ten minutes and then Joseph was executed. (shot) The line that says " I had to leave my own sick bed" refers to the fact that Joseph was suffering from TB at the time. The last verse mentions the blood upon the rose which was the title of a poem by Joseph which was taught in Irish Schools according to my mother! The blood upon the rose is a reference to Christ's blood. Mick @Irish @love filename[ GRACEWED EZ oct99 Click to Play |
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26 Sep 13 - 03:19 AM (#3561369) Subject: RE: DT Correction: Grace (Frank & Sean O'Meara) From: MartinRyan One minor point which may save Googlers from confusion: the name of the man who "called me to his side" is usually written Padraig Pearse. Pronunciation varies between Pawd - rig and Paw - rick . Regards |
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01 Oct 18 - 07:57 AM (#3953973) Subject: RE: DT Correction: Grace (Frank & Sean O'Meara) From: GUEST Just found this thread while looking for information on Frank O'Meara who wrote this wonderful song. The song was memorably recorded by Jim McCann, formerly of the Dubliners, in 1996, on the album "Grace & Other Irish Love Songs". Brendan Quinn also does a good version on "Melodies & Medleys" from 1991. Incidentally Steeleye Span recorded a version of Joseph Plunkett's poem "I See his Blood Upon the Rose" on their 2000 album "Bedlam Born" - great vocals from Gay Woods, but I'm not so keen on the arrangement. Now Rod Stewart has recorded the song Grace on his latest album, so it is about to have a whole new lease of life ... Joe in Dublin. |
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01 Oct 18 - 10:40 AM (#3954007) Subject: RE: DT Correction: Grace (Frank & Sean O'Meara) From: Brakn A 20 year old thread. wow |
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03 Jun 23 - 09:21 AM (#4173738) Subject: Origins: Grace by Ciara Fox From: Georgiansilver I really love the song and Ciara Fox has such an amazing voice and accent. Hope you enjoy it. https://youtu.be/UJAzKizrVhI |