The IRA intended to hold the paintings to ransom in exchange for the transfer of IRA members Dolours Price and Marian Price who had been convicted of car-bombings in England. All the stolen paintings were recovered in County Cork a few weeks later. (26 April 1974)
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Sunday 14th of August 1921 (-) — Black Jerome Whitfield is lynched by hanging and his body riddled with bullets. Whitfield criminally assaulted the 19-year-old wife of Pompie Irving.