Marie McGrath
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Love Letters Through Time
Context: Grace (Gráinne) Gifford, was a participant in the Irish nationalist struggle against British rule, which led to ‘The Easter Rising’, Easter Monday, 1916 in Dublin, Ireland. She was betrothed to one of the leaders, who were due to be executed the morning after being taken prisoner. Joseph and Grace were married the night before in his prison cell. Joseph (Seosamh Pluinceid)) was one of the leaders of The Rising, a signatory of the Irish Proclamation and, in death, a revered Irish hero. These are my imaginings of ‘her’ final words to him. I include a few words in Irish Gaelic as the movement that led to the rebellion favored speaking Irish, instead of English. I would wager a guess, as they were both poets and writers in the Irish republican movement that she would have chosen to marry her love of country with her love of him in expressing her devotion.
By Marie McGrathabout a year ago in History
Love Letters Through Time
Context: Grace (Gráinne) Gifford, was a participant in the Irish nationalist struggle against British rule, which led to ‘The Easter Rising’, Easter Monday, 1916 in Dublin, Ireland. She was betrothed to one of the leaders, who were due to be executed the morning after being taken prisoner. Joseph and Grace were married the night before in his prison cell. Joseph (Seosamh Pluinceid)) was one of the leaders of The Rising, a signatory of the Irish Proclamation and, in death, a revered Irish hero. These are my imaginings of ‘her’ final words to him. I include a few words in Irish Gaelic as the movement that led to the rebellion favored speaking Irish, instead of English. I would wager a guess, as they were both poets and writers in the Irish republican movement that she would have chosen to marry her love of country with her love of him in expressing her devotion.
By Marie McGrathExclusive • about a year ago
Kneecap represents
Back in the 1970s, I spent nearly a year researching what was, and is, known as the Celtic Revival in my home country, Ireland. It was a sort of renaissance of Irish culture, literature, arts and language that began around the mid-1800s . Those who, for centuries were proscribed from using their native tongue, Irish Gaelic, now embraced it and their history with the sort of pride that had waned among the Irish people during the starvation years of the recent The Potato Famine (1845 – 1852); when a million either starved or emigrated to foreign shores.
By Marie McGrathabout a year ago in FYI
Hortense and the Library
Hortense Gunsenthorpe lived in the little blue house all her life. Her mother, Harmony and her father, Hawthorne J. lived there, too. The best thing Hortense liked to do was sit at the kitchen table and talk to them. They were a happy family and liked to do things together.
By Marie McGrathabout a year ago in Fiction
