Firmly rooted in the Republican landscape of 1970s Ireland, this is the extraordinary story of how Rose Dugdale, an English heiress who abandoned her life of privilege to join the IRA, devised one of the biggest art heists in history. The focus of the series is the Russborough House heist from 1974, which was largely orchestrated by Dugdale who acted as the brains of the operation, selecting which paintings were to be stolen at the time of the robbery.
The immediate aftermath of the crime is relayed by key witness testimonies, including crime correspondents who reported the story and the police officer who made the detection and arrest of Dugdale in Cork with the 19 paintings. [3 x 60′]
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