- Hardcover
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- The Irish Game A True Story of Crime and Art
- Matthew Hart
- English
- 13 February 2018
- 9780802714268
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summary ☆ PDF, DOC, TXT or eBook ✓ Matthew Hart Matthew Hart ✓ 0 free read summary The Irish Game A True Story of Crime and Art O the international arena and when he did his pursuers were waitingThe movie perfect sting that broke Cahill uncovered an astonishing maze of banking and drug dealing connections that redefined the way police view art theft As if that were not enough the recovery of the Vermeer by then worth 200 million led to a remarkable discovery about the way Vermeer achieved his photographic perspective The Irish Game places the great theft in Ireland's long sad history of violence and follows the thread that led as a direct result of Cahill's one of the most audacious art heists in history 1986 Ireland s Russborough House 200 to 300 million dollars worth of paintings Gainsborough Goya Rubens and Vermeer s Lady Writing A Letter With Her Maid money laundering drug dealing IRA assassinations the police knew immediately who had done the crime but it took many years to prove the crime the theft indirectly led to a remarkable discovery about the way Vermeer achieved his photographic perspective contains an additional chapter on the 1994 theft of Edvard Munch s The Sream in Oslo Norway well written uite enjoyable
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summary ☆ PDF, DOC, TXT or eBook ✓ Matthew Hart Matthew Hart ✓ 0 free read summary The Irish Game A True Story of Crime and Art In the annals of art theft no case has matched for sheer criminal panache the heist at Ireland's Russborough House in 1986The Irish police knew right away that the mastermind was a Dublin gangster named Martin Cahill Yet the great plunder including a Gainsborough a Goya two Rubenses and a Vermeer remained at large for years Cahill taunted the police with a string of other crimes but in the end it was the paintings that brought him low The challenge of disposing of such famous works forced him to reach outside his familiar world int This was fun I had been in several of the areas the Gardner museum Wicklow mountains the area near the train station in Antwerp so picturing it was cool Crazy stuff though
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summary ☆ PDF, DOC, TXT or eBook ✓ Matthew Hart Matthew Hart ✓ 0 free read summary The Irish Game A True Story of Crime and Art Desperate adventures with the Russborough art to his assassination by the IRA With the storytelling skill of a novelist and the instincts of a detective Matthew Hart follows the twists and turns of this celebrated case linking it with two other world famous thefts of Vermeer's The Concert and other famous paintings at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston and of Edvard Munch's The Scream at the National Gallery of Norway in Oslo Sharply observed fully explored The Irish Game is a masterpiece in the literature of true crime This was an art theft book with a strong start but which fizzled out to a weak endingA house called Russborough House located a few miles from Dublin in the Wicklow Mountains had both a famous art collection uneualed in Ireland as well as the worst luck with thieves making off with items from the collections several items being stolen and recaptured repeatedly The whole story could have been a cautionary tale of how NOT to care for an art collection They the owners never seemed to learn that they were enticing the thefts both by the value of the art pieces and the total lack of security I couldn t get over that such aristocratic people with plenty of money at their disposal would have such a nonchalant attitude to their art collection to the point of allowing it to be plundered five 5 timesApart from the thefts and subseuent elaborate police actions taken to retrieve the paintings I found the information regarding Vermeer and how he worked to be most interesting if beyond my pedestrian grasp of perspective Also I thought it was uite heartening to learn that police art recovery teams from various countries manage to work together so smoothly while obtaining a good outcome It gives me hope for the possibilities of international cooperation in other fields