Ireland day 9

Dublin is beautiful, bustling, vibrant, modern/historic and very friendly. started on the on/off  bus which stops at all the attractions. Wonderful narration by the awesome driver. First stop was Kilmainhan Gaol which is where leaders of the 1916 rebellion were executed. love the story of leader  Joseph Plunkett who was allowed to marry his love Grace before he died. The song Grace by Irish Tenor Anthony Kearns tells the story. We saw the chapel and went inside the prison cells. What brave people!  Kind of cool how freedom is freedom is freedom whether it is Irish freedom from Britain, France from tyrannical monarchs or the US struggles.

Grace by Irish Tenors

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 school days they have told us we must yearn
for liberty
Yet all I want in this dark place is to have you here
with me

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 bare for these brave men, the love for my
dear land
But when Pádraic called me to his side down in the GPO
I had to leave my own sick bed, to him I had to go

Oh, Grace just hold me in your arms and let this moment
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linger
They'll take me out at dawn and I will die
With all my love I'll place this wedding ring upon your
finger
There won't be time to share our love for we must say
goodbye

Now as the dawn is breaking, my heart is breaking too
On this May morn as I walk out, my thoughts will be of
you
And I'll write some words upon the wall so everyone
will know
I loved so much that I could see his blood upon the
rose.

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'll place this wedding ring upon your
finger
There won't be time to share our love for we must say
goodbye
For we must say goodbye

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