 The Irish Crown Jewels. This image was published by the Royal Irish Constabulary and the Dublin Metropolitican Police twice a week after the theft of the jewels was discovered. The Irish Crown Jewels were heavily jewelled insignia of the Most Illustrious Order of St Patrick. They were worn by the sovereign at the installation of knights of that order, the Irish equivalent of the English Order of the Garter and the Scottish Order of the Thistle. Their theft from Dublin Castle in 1907 remains unsolved. image of the stolen Irish Crown Jewels, published in Hue and Cry, which was published by the Royal Irish Constabulary and the Dublin Metropolitican Police twice a week. ...
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In 1903, the jewels were transferred to a safe, which was to be placed in the newly constructed strongroom. The new safe was too large for the doorway to the strongroom, and Arthur Vicars, the Officer of Arms of Dublin Castle, instead stored the jewels in his office. Seven latch keys to the door of the Office of Arms were held by Vicars and his staff, and two keys to the safe containing the insignia were both in the custody of Vicars. Sir Arthur Vicars (1864 - 1921) was an English-born genealogist and heraldic expert who spent his adult life in Ireland. ...
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Vicars refused to resign his position, and similarly refused to appear at a Viceregal Commission into the theft (the commission did not possess powers to subpoena witnesses) held from 10 January 1908. Vicars argued for a public royal inquiry in lieu of the commission, and publicly accused his second in command, Francis Shackleton, of the theft (Francis was the brother of the explorer Ernest Shackleton). Shackleton was exonerated in the commission's report, and Vicars was found to have "not exercise[d] due vigilance or proper care as the custodian of the regalia". Vicars met a sad end in disgrace: on 14 April 1921 he was shot dead by the IRA.[1] The commission's report has been the subject of critical review in recent times (see external link, below) and there have been recent calls in the Republic of Ireland for a centennial inquiry into the crime. A subpoena is a command to appear at a certain time and place to give testimony upon a certain matter. ...
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It is believed that the Irish Crown Jewels have never been recovered. It has been rumoured that in 1927 they were offered for sale to the Irish Free State for £5,000 and that they were bought back on then prime minister W.T. Cosgrave's orders, with the instructions that the fact that the Irish state owned them was not to be revealed, for fear of criticism from republicans and because of the tight budgetary situation in the Irish Free State. However, an extensive search in the National Archives of Ireland has failed to find any evidence that they were bought, or, if so, what happened to them. (Until the 1940s, the Irish state did have some of the Russian Crown Jewels, which were used as collateral for a loan given to the Russian Republic by the Irish Republic about 1920. It is possible the rumour about the state possessing the Irish Crown Jewels grew because it was known that some crown jewels were stored in Government Buildings in Dublin, people hastily presuming that they must be the Irish crown jewels.)(2) This article is about the prior state. ...
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Footnotes - Rumours of a homosexual ring in Dublin Castle were linked to claims about the theft. It was variously rumoured that Shackleton and/or Vicars were being blackmailed on account of their orientation, they or others in the castle facilitating the theft to pay off the blackmailers or to "expose" Vicars' rumoured sex life through an inquiry into the theft. The claim of homosexual rings in Dublin Castle was nothing new. One nationalist MP during the lord lieutenancy of the 5th Earl Spencer in the 1880s famously nicknamed the Lord Lieutenant's Dublin Castle administration Sodom and Begorrah.
- The new Russian Republic, which was seriously low on funds, apparently sought the loan from the UDI Irish Republic, whose finance minister, Michael Collins, had become internationally famous for his fundraising for the unofficial Irish state. The jewels were placed in a safe in Government Buildings and promptly forgotten about, though the existence of some crown jewels somewhere was rumoured. They were rediscovered in the 1940s by accident and sent to Moscow.
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References
Additional reading - Tim Coates (ed.), The Theft of the Irish Crown Jewels (Tim Coates, 2003) ISBN 1-84381-007-7
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