IRA bomber Rose Dugdale buried in Glasnevin

Rose Dugdale, the London debutante who became an art thief and IRA bomber, was buried in Glasnevin Cemetery after her death at the age of 82.
In 1973, she was part of a gang stole paintings and silverware valued at £82,000 from her own family home in Devon, with proceeds believed to be destined for the IRA. Apprehended, she cross-examined her father at her trial, telling him she loved him but that she hated “everything you stand for”. She received a two-year suspended sentence; the judge said it was unlikely she would reoffend.
In January 1974 with Eddie Gallagher and other IRA members she hijacked a helicopter. Posing as journalists on a photo-mission to Tory Island, they loaded the craft with milk churns of high explosive and forced the pilot to fly to Strabane. They dropped two of the churns but failed in their mission to blow up Strabane RUC barracks.
That April they broke into Russborough House in Co Wicklow, home of former Tory MP and South African mining heir Sir Alfred Beit, and stole 19 masterpieces by artists such as by Vermeer, Goya, Velázquez, Rubens, Hals and Gainsborough - a haul valued in today’s terms at about €120 million. Dugdale, knowledgeable about art, identified which paintings were to be taken and which left.
They demanded £500,000 and the release from English prison of IRA members, the Price sisters, Dolours and Marian, and Gerry Kelly and Hugh Feeney.
Dugdale was arrested in west Cork the following month and all 19 paintings were recovered. She was sentenced to nine years. She had a baby in Limerick Prison, Ruairi, fathered by Gallagher. While the relationship had dimmed she married Gallagher in prison in 1978 in order to avoid subsequent extradition to Northern Ireland.
In 1975 Gallagher and Marion Coyle kidnapped the Dutch industrialist Tiede Herrema, demanding the release of Dugdale and two other IRA prisoners. Herrema was released after an 18-day siege with Gallagher sentenced to 20 years.
On her release from prison Dugdale resumed her republican activism, getting involved in the vigilante group Concerned Parents Against Drugs, which targeted a number of drug dealers operating in Dublin working class estates.
Her biography revealed that Dugdale, much below the radar, from the mid-1980s was an experienced and innovative bombmaker for the IRA, working with her new partner, Jim Monaghan. He was one of the Colombia Three who in 2001 were arrested in Colombia and subsequently sentenced to 17 years in prison on charges of training FARC rebels. They managed to flee the country and return to Ireland.
A film about Dugdale called Baltimore - its US title is Rose’s War - will be released later this year.
Video: Chris Maddaloni

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Феминистские источники в РФ пишут о ней. Смелая женщина.
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