Rod Stewart Pays Tribute to Irish Rebel's Wife During Glasnevin Cemetery Visit
Stewart is in Ireland for an appearance on ‘The Late Late Show’ this week
Irish Central, 24 MAR 2019.
During his Irish visit, Stewart made sure to visit the famous Glasnevin Cemetery, where some of Ireland’s most iconic figures are buried....
He has recorded a version of the Irish love song 'Grace' which tells the story of Grace marrying 1916 leader Joseph Plunkett the night before his execution.
Stewart is particularly touched by the tragic love story of Joseph and Grace Plunkett. Only hours before he was to be put to death for his involvement in the 1916 Easter Uprising, Joseph married Grace in Kilmainham Jail in Dublin.
The love letter Joseph penned to Grace was later turned into the ballad song ‘Grace,’ which Stewart has recorded a version of for his latest album ‘Blood Red Roses.’
Of the Irish ballad, Stewart told Billboard: “I visited the jail and went into the chapel where it all happened. So it means a lot to me, that one, it really does. There was no furniture in the jail apart from the bed of jail, no table, no bed, no chair, nothing.”
“Just sat on the floor, and the glass that was there when I visited wasn’t there in those days, so the wind and the snow came straight into the cell.”
“Man’s inhumanity to man never stops to astonish me.”
Listen to Rod Stewart’s version of ‘Grace’ performed live in Las Vegas here:
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