An unrepentant idealogue, she said the happiest day of her life was when she took part in an attack on Strabane RUC barracks
in 1972 that prompted her to join the Provisional republican paramilitary group, although her ideological direction of travel was set in motion years earlier.
And although her glamorous mother, Caroline, from a wealthy Gloucestershire family, was strict, Dugdale said she enjoyed a “brilliant childhood”. Nonetheless, from her late teens she was determined to detach herself from the affluence of her parents. Sean O’Driscoll, who wrote her biography, Also at college, with another student, she dressed as a man so she could infiltrate the then all-male Oxford Union debating society, as part of a campaign to break the bar on women, a ban that ended in 1963.Wittgenstein
In 1973, with Heaton and other accomplices, she stole paintings and silverware valued at £82,000 from her own family home in Devon, with proceeds believed to be destined for the IRA. Apprehended, she cross-examined her father at her trial, telling him she loved him but that she hated “everything you stand for”. She received a two-year suspended sentence; the judge said it was unlikely she would reoffend.
On her release from prison Dugdale resumed her republican activism, getting involved in the vigilante group Concerned Parents Against Drugs, which targeted a number of drug dealers operating in Dublin working class estates.
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