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Dublin: the capital of Ireland. Nowadays a vibrant city of culture. But behind the bustling facade violent gangland killings have transformed it into the murder capital of Europe. Dublin’s brutal gangland culture evolved from the shadow of the troubles – a bloody civil war that tore apart the north of Ireland. For thirty long years. Out of the chaos emerged a new breed of mobster who copied terrorist techniques and amassed huge fortunes from armed robberies and kidnapping. Others made money from the drugs trade. Underworld: Dublin Gangland, 2011
Who would buy world-class works of art? ... Cahill put the word out in the underworld he was keen to sell the paintings. This gave the police the opportunity they needed: they set up a sting ... He got away with paintings worth over thirty million pounds. ibid.
He was Ireland’s most famous mastermind. He became a living legend. He organised one of the biggest art heists in the world. Masterminds e19: The Dublin Job, 2004
Russborough House near Dublin, Ireland ... The paintings were protected by a sophisticated alarm system. ibid.
Of the one hundred paintings in the collection they had taken the eighteen most valuable works ... Sixty million in rare paintings. ibid.
The man behind the crime was Martin Cahill, a notorious Irish criminal gangster known as the General. ibid.
Cahill’s gang pulled off a series of successful jewellery and bank robberies in Dublin. ibid.
Cahill knew nothing about art, but he knew how to move stolen goods. ibid.
Cahill took the paintings to the hiding place in the Dublin mountains. ibid.
He still didn’t know how to turn his paintings into hard cash. ibid.
Undercover agents posed as would-be buyers. ibid.
The protestant buyers were really undercover police. ibid.
Martin Cahill’s death was front page news. ibid.
Do you know a man called Erasmus? He’s from the Congo too. You don’t know him? Erasmus is a gangsta, a pimp, a drug dealer. The Front Line 2006 starring Eriq Ebouaney & Gerard McSorley & James Frain & Fatou N’Diaye & Hakeem Kae-Kazim & Orla O'Rourke et al, director David Gleeson
Go! Now! Go! ibid. Joe to robbers
What can you do to a people who have already been to Hell? ibid. Erasmus to Joe
Regardless of the man, the demon lies in all of us. ibid. Erasmus
This violence isn’t getting us anywhere. Odd Man Out 1947 starring James Mason & Robert Newton & Cyril Cusack & William Hartnell & Kathleen Ryan & F J McCormick & Fay Compton & Denis O'Dea et al, director Carol Reed, Johnny
As long as he lives he belongs to the organisation. ibid. geezer
Northern Ireland 1969: Northern Ireland was torn apart by what’s been known as The Troubles. A 30-year campaign by the IRA against the British state. The Heiress and the Heist I, comment, Amazon 2023
And that’s when Rose Dugdale became involved in some operations. ibid.
Rose Dugdale comes from a moneyed Anglo background, the last kind of person you would expect to get involved in radical politics in Ireland. ibid.
She was plotting her next crime: what was the largest art heist in the world … Then the story become the hunt. ibid.
Russborough House is a Palladian mansion in County Wicklow, near the village of Blessington … The house was filled with this remarkable collection of old masters. ibid.
The Great Art Robbery. ibid. Belfast Telegraph, Saturday 27th April 1974
This is 1974. There aren’t a lot of female radical wannabe terrorists out there. Rose Dugdale was an obvious suspect. The Heiress and the Heist II, comments
The idea of stealing masterpieces could only have come from Rose. ibid.
What happened after the heist? Had they thought that through properly. ibid.
Although the IRA themselves are not happy with them at all. ibid.
The car they used to transport the very valuable paintings breaks down. And they have to get a mechanic to look at it. You couldn’t make it up. ibid.
She believed passionately in certain things and was prepared to put her life and freedom on the line for them. The Heiress and the Heist III, comments
The English toff who became a fervent IRA recruit. ibid.
She was sentenced to nine years in prison. ibid.