Trailer for Baltimore – the vivid, intense biopic of heiress turned terrorist Rose Dugdale
HELL-BENT on murder, IRA terrorist Rose Dugdale pelted the Royal Ulster Constabulary station with bombs from a hijacked helicopter.Despite a life of privilege, she would become the world’s most wanted woman after masterminding what was then history’s biggest art heist for theHer journey from English society girl to IRA bomber was certainly the ultimate act of rebellion for a daughter of the establishment.
She said Rose and her older sister Caroline were “obliged by their mother to wear only blue frocks with matching ribbons in their hair”. After winning a place at St Anne’s College, Oxford, Dugdale is said to have had passionate affairs with novelist Iris Murdoch and a female tutor. On the night of June 6, 1973, she knew her parents would be away at Epsom races. With Heaton, she stole paintings and antiques worth £82,000 from the family pad.Arrested and sent for trial, she told her father from the dock: “I love you, Daddy, but I hate everything you stand for.”A judge gave Dugdale a two-year suspended sentence, believing she was unlikely to offend again.
“She pointed up at the walls and said, ‘That one, that one’. She had been in the house before as a guest.Dugdale’s unit demanded the release of sisters Dolours and Marian Price, jailed for their part in an IRA bombing, plus £500,000 in exchange for their haul. In October 1975 Gallagher and accomplice Marian Coyle kidnapped Dutch industrialist Dr Tiede Herrema and demanded the release of Dugdale and two other terrorists.Gallagher — who had held a gun to Herrema’s head — finally gave himself up and was sentenced to 20 years behind bars.Dugdale was released in 1980 after serving six years of her sentence.campaigns
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