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

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

Dugdale also involved in 1974 art heist and attack on police station 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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