18 Facts About Rose Dugdale

Bridget Rose Dugdale was an English debutante who rebelled against her wealthy upbringing, becoming a volunteer in the militant Irish republican organisation, the Provisional Irish Republican Army.

Rose Dugdale's millionaire father was an underwriter at Lloyd's of London who owned Yarty Farm, a 600-acre estate at Membury near Axminster in Devon.

The family owned a house in London near Chelsea Hospital, and Rose Dugdale was educated at the nearby Miss Ironside's School for Girls in Kensington, west London.

Rose Dugdale was a popular pupil, with fellow pupil Virginia Ironside stating: "Everyone adored this generous, clever and dashing millionaire's daughter, who was life and laughter".

Later in 1959, Rose Dugdale began reading philosophy, politics and economics at St Anne's College, University of Oxford.

Rose Dugdale studied at the University of London, obtaining a PhD in economics.

At the trial at Exeter Crown Court Rose Dugdale claimed to have been coerced and pleaded not guilty, and used the proceedings to publicly denounce her family and background.

Rose Dugdale's father appeared as a witness for the prosecution and was cross-examined by Dugdale, who said to him: "I love you, but hate everything you stand for".

Heaton was sentenced to six years' imprisonment, and Rose Dugdale received a two-year suspended sentence as the judge considered the risk of her committing any further criminal acts to be "extremely remote".

The bombs failed to explode, and Rose Dugdale became wanted for questioning regarding the bombing with her picture in police stations across Britain and Ireland.

On 26 April 1974, Rose Dugdale took part in a raid on Russborough House in County Wicklow, the home of Sir Alfred Beit, 2nd Baronet.

Rose Dugdale was arrested under Section 30 of the Offences against the State Act, and the next day she was charged in relation to the helicopter attack and the art theft.

Rose Dugdale knows perfectly well she could turn to me if she wanted to.

Rose Dugdale was pregnant with Eddie Gallagher's child when she was imprisoned, and on 12 December 1974, she gave birth to a son, Ruairi, in Limerick Prison.

Gallagher and Coyle were sentenced to twenty years' and fifteen years' imprisonment respectively, and in 1978, Gallagher and Rose Dugdale received special dispensation to marry.

Rose Dugdale was a veteran activist in the political party Sinn Fein.

Until her death, Rose Dugdale lived in a care home in Dublin run by the Poor Servants of the Mother of God, most of whose residents are retired nuns.

Rose Dugdale died there on 18 March 2024, at the age of 82.