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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Shane Harrison in Dublin

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

Rose Dugdale
Dugdale’s story attracted renewed interest in the past year, with a new book, television series and a film. Photograph: Jimmy James/Evening News/Shutterstock

Rose Dugdale, who went from a background of wealth and privilege in England to become an 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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