Heiress, Rebel, Vigilante, Bomber
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  • Published: 16 June 2022
  • ISBN: 9780241996072
  • Imprint: Penguin Audio
  • Format: Audio Download
  • RRP: $30.00

Heiress, Rebel, Vigilante, Bomber

The Extraordinary Life and Times of Rose Dugdale

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16 Jun 2022
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The astonishing story of the English heiress who devoted her life to the IRA

She grew up in a Chelsea townhouse and on a Devon estate.

She was presented to the Queen at Buckingham Palace as a debutante in 1958.

She trained at Oxford as an academic economist and had a love affair with a female professor (who was on the rebound from Iris Murdoch).

At thirty, she commenced giving her inheritance away to the poor.

In 1972, the deadliest year of the Northern Irish Troubles, she travelled to Ireland and joined the IRA.

Sean O'Driscoll's Heiress, Rebel, Vigilante, Bomber tells the astonishing story of Rose Dugdale, who went on to become a committed terrorist, participating in a major art heist and a bombing raid on a police and army barracks; who kept a pregnancy secret for nine months in prison and gave birth there; and who ended up at the heart of the IRA's bomb-making operation during its deadly final spasms in the 1990s. Heiress, Rebel, Vigilante, Bomber is both the page-turning biography of a remarkable woman and a groundbreaking account of the inner workings of a terrorist organization.
  • Published: 16 June 2022
  • ISBN: 9780241996072
  • Imprint: Penguin Audio
  • Format: Audio Download
  • RRP: $30.00
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About the author

Sean O'Driscoll

Sean O'Driscoll is a journalist and attorney based in Dublin. He is the author of The Accidental Spy, the bestselling true story of an American trucker who became an FBI spy within the IRA. His investigative journalism has appeared in the New York Times, the Guardian and the Irish Times. He previously worked as an immigration and criminal lawyer in New York and now works as a news editor at the Irish Daily Mail.

Praise for Heiress, Rebel, Vigilante, Bomber

Superb . . . an even-handed and thrilling gallop through [Dugdale's] improbable life

Daily Telegraph

Possibly the most extraordinary book you'll read this year

Irish Examiner

Fascinating . . . O'Driscoll's research is impressive

Ben Macintyre, The Times

It would be hard to overstate how good this book is . . . a fantastic read

Eilis O'Hanlon, Sunday Independent

Unputdownable . . . jaw-dropping

Joe Duffy

[A] pacey, well-researched book

Frank Coughlin, Irish Independent

Well-researched . . . balanced

Charles Lysaght, Irish Times

Riveting

Roy Foster, TLS

An absorbing, well-researched and extremely well-written account of a life that almost defies belief

David McCullagh, RTÉ

Generous and well researched

Rosa Lyster, LRB

Sean O'Driscoll's fair-minded examination of her extraordinary, often violent life . . . acknowledges her humanity and viciousness

Observer