No greater love: Five Irish love stories that changed history
Published Sunday, February 14, 2010, 7:23 AM
Updated Wednesday, March 10, 2010, 3:57 PM
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Michael Collins met Kitty Kiernan in a hotel in Longford.
5. Joseph Mary Plunkett and Grace Gifford
Plunkett was a leader in the 1916 Rising and a leading figure in the Irish Republican brotherhood. Grace Gifford was his girlfriend and after Plunkett was captured and ordered executed she married him in his prison cell and a few hours later he was executed . She wore widows clothing ever afterwards.
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Watchman | Feb 16, 2010, 02:37 PM EST
I must tell you my story about Michael Collins. About 20 years ago, I visited Enniskillen to do a story for the Sunday Times of London. There I met these two wonderful old ladies who had been concert pianists for many years, playing as a duo. Anyway, they told me that sometime after 1916 Collins was spotted in the town. Apparently he was seeing some girl there at the time. The word got out that the Big Fellow was about the place, but nobody, in a predominantly Protestant and Unionist town, reported him to the RIC. I asked one of the ladies why they hadn't turned him in. "Oh," she replied. "But he was a gentleman, and it wasn't for us to interfere with his private life."
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modo3134 | Feb 14, 2010, 06:29 PM EST
Love the stories but saw a couple of errors. Michael Collins was killed near the end of the Civil War not the begining and Joseph Plunkett and Grace were married in the chapel of Kilmainham not in a cell. Keep up the good work of bringing us Irish history.
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kickstar | Feb 14, 2010, 03:09 PM EST
Your views are your own opinions Patrick Cooper....Some of us would have very differing opinions about your selected Characters.
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