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She began life as a rich young debutant who was presented to the Queen but she became the inspiration for Martin ‘The General’ Cahill to conduct one of the most daring raids of his career. Republican renegade Rose Dugdale was an aristocrat born into extreme wealth in Devon but she turned her back on her life of privilege to join the ‘Irish cause’ and is to date the only woman to pull of a major art heist. A new book, The Woman Who Stole Vermeer, by art detective Anthony Amore details how Dugdale planned and carried out the first major raid on Russborough House in County Wicklow stealing a number of paintings including the famed ‘Lady Writing a Letter With Her Maid by the Dutch master Vermeer. ....