A wedding that has gone down in Irish history, when Joseph Mary Plunkett and Grace Gifford wed in Kilmainham Gaol... For Sunday Miscellany, listen to Marriage by Candlelight, by Sinéad McCoole above.
In another time and place it would have been a society wedding, a ceremony conducted with joy, befitting the union of two upper-class Irish families...
This essay appeared on the programme of January 18th - listen back here
