Despite earning so little money, she enjoyed a lively social life; her friends included Nora Dryhurst, a journalist who worked in London, and George William Russell (Æ).

[5] During the same year, Mrs Dryhurst brought Gifford to the opening of the new bilingual school Scoil Éanna in Ranelagh, Dublin.

He was a friend of her brother-in-law, another of the future leaders of the 1916 Easter Rising, Thomas MacDonagh, who was married to Gifford's sister Muriel.

She bought a ring in a jeweller's shop in Dublin city centre and, with the help of a priest, persuaded the military authorities to allow them to marry.

[8][9][1] Grace Plunkett decided to devote herself through her art to the promotion of Sinn Féin policies and resumed her commercial work to earn a living.

Her talent as an artist was her only real asset; her cartoons were published in various newspapers and magazines, including Dublin Opinion, the Irish Tatler, Sketch, and on one occasion in 1934, Punch.

Her material circumstances improved in 1932 when she received a Civil List pension from Éamon de Valera's Fianna Fáil government.

[5] This freed her from financial worries and enabled her to make the occasional trip to Paris where she delighted in visits to the galleries and exhibitions.

[5] For years Grace received nothing, so she began legal proceedings against her mother- and father-in-law, Count George Noble Plunkett and his wife in 1934.

Her body was removed to St Kevin's Church, Harrington Street and among the attendees at her funeral was President Seán T. O'Kelly.

[14] The song was adopted by Green Brigade, a group of supporters of Celtic FC who attempted in December 2016 to make a version by the band Glasnevin, Christmas number one in the UK.

This was in aid of a legal fund to pay for its member who received fines under the Offensive Behaviour at Football and Threatening Communications (Scotland) Act 2012 and for campaigning for its repeal.