Tony O’Reilly, Nell McCafferty, Ian Bailey and more: 50 people who died in 2024
The Irish Times’s obituary writers have marked the deaths of more than 110 people this year, from entrepreneurs to musicians to journalists. Here is a selection
Rose Dugdale
Paddy Cosgrave’s high-risk return: ‘He is a fascinating figure ... I think he relishes the notoriety’
Sponsors will want to hear from Cosgrave about posting of a Palestinian flag by the Ditch on October 7th, says businessman
Grizzled ‘republican family’ veterans turn out for IRA bomber Rose Dugdale’s funeral
Mourners who forgot to wear Easter lilies handed replacements as service plays host to who’s who of republican circles
Tom Vaughan-Lawlor on his new IRA heist film: ‘If it was fictitious you’d say it was too much’
It retells the story of Rose Dugdale, the debutante who led a 1974 art robbery at Russborough House
Obituary: Rose Dugdale, the London debutante who became an art thief and IRA bomber
An unrepentant idealogue, she said the happiest day of her life was when she took part in an attack on Strabane RUC barracks
Rose Dugdale, English heiress who joined Provisional IRA, dies aged 83
Sinn Féin politicians pay tribute to ‘true revolutionary’ who was involved in Russborough House art heist
The Heiress and the Heist: Rose Dugdale was a figure almost too riotous for real life
British debutante turned IRA armed robber reminds us how during The Troubles truth was routinely stranger than fiction
‘Great friend of Ireland’: IRA kidnap victim Tiede Herrema dies aged 99
Dutch industrialist abducted in 1975 and held for 36 days dies days after his wife
Stolen, found – an Old Master nativity with a colourful past
Over four centuries "The Adoration of the Shepherds" has turned up in places as diverse as Delft in Holland, a royal palace in Germany, a French château, an attic in Clondalkin and a stately home in Co Wicklow
Beit Foundation settles death duty dispute with a painting
The Cornfield by Jacob van Ruisdael will now go to the Ulster Museum in Belfast
What became of Russborough House’s Old Masters for sale?
Of the Beit paintings controversially earmarked for auction, three avoided the hammer
Tiede Herrema: ‘The kidnappers were nervous. So was I’
Weekend Read: 40 years ago the businessman was abducted by the IRA and held for 36 days. He survived by keeping his captors calm and using survival skills honed in a second World War concentration camp
The kidnapping: Tiede Herrema’s ordeal
Weekend read: The Dutch industrialist was abducted in October 1975 by Eddie Gallagher and Marion Coyle, two republicans who held him for 36 days
Questions over authenticity of Russborough painting
Rubens’s The Monk was apparently rejected for auction and is returning to Ireland
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