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Irish artist (1888–1955)

Grace Evelyn Gifford Plunkett (4 March 1888 – 13 December 1955) was an Irish artist and cartoonist who was active in the Republican movement, who married her fiancé Joseph Plunkett in Kilmainham Gaol only a few hours before he was executed for his part in the 1916 Easter Rising.

Early life and education

Main article: Gifford sisters

Gifford's parents were Frederick Gifford, a solicitor^[1] and a Roman Catholic, and Isabella Julia Burton Gifford, a Protestant. They were married in St George's, a Church of Ireland church on the north side of Dublin. Grace was the second youngest in a family of 12 children and grew up in the fashionable suburb of Rathmines in Dublin.^[2] The boys were baptised as Catholics and the girls as Protestant, but effectively the children were all raised as Protestants – the girls attended Alexandra College in Earlsfort Terrace, and the boys attended the High School in Harcourt Street.^&