April 27, 2025
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Rose Dugdale, English heiress turned IRA bomb maker, dies aged 83

Rose Dugdale, English heiress turned IRA bomb maker, dies aged 83

Sinn Féin members pay tribute to Dugdale, who was also involved in 1974 art heist and police station attack using hijacked helicopter

Rose Dugdale, an English heiress turned IRA militant and bomb maker, has died in a Dublin nursing home aged 83.

Dugdale was presented as a 17-year-old to Queen Elizabeth as part of the 1958 summer debutante season. Years later, in 1974, Dugdale was given a nine-year prison sentence, in part for her role in the theft of 19 paintings from the home of a wealthy British politician.

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