It retells the story of Rose Dugdale, the debutante who led a 1974 art robbery at Russborough House
. That news has brought an unexpected topicality to Joe Lawlor and Christine Molloy’s Baltimore. The slow, thoughtful film focuses on the late IRA volunteer’s role in a notorious art heist on Russborough House, in Co Wicklow, almost exactly 50 years ago. Vaughan-Lawlor is typically focused as one of Dugdale’s comrades. That story had faded a bit from consciousness, but it was familiar enough for the Daily Mail to publish an angry headline at the time of Baltimore’s world premiere.Yes, indeed.
Patrick Freyne: 12 reasons why it hasn’t always been cool to be Irish - including Murder, She Wrote and Batman I talk to Vaughan-Lawlor at his home in Whitstable. He and his wife, the fellow actor Claire Cox, moved to the scenic Kent town some years ago to escape the bustle and ferment of London. They are now raising two children by the Thames Estuary. Vaughan-Lawlor was brought up in Dublin, son of the actor Tom Lawlor, and, though he lived through a good portion of the Troubles, he has admitted that it all seemed a long way away.
“My dad exposed me to all the great actors of the 1970s,” he says. “And all the great actors of the 1950s and 1960s. I was around theatre all my life. I was around cinema. So it has always been there. I studied drama at Trinity . I don’t know. Acting is a form of escape. It’s a form of understanding who you are. There is a search there. And I find that very appealing.”in London. It is always fun to look up who was at Rada with whom.
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