There have been four robberies at the beautiful Russborough House in County Wicklow, Ireland, over the last 28 years—with the same paintings being stolen over and over again.

Thousands of revellers danced through the decades last weekend when Kaleidoscope returned to west Wicklow to celebrate its ...

Russborough House was built in the 18th century as the country house for Dublin’s wealthy Leeson family (after which the street is named) who were ennobled with the Earldom of Milltown.

Russborough, ancestral home of the Earls of Milltown, was up for sale because the last generation of the family still living in the house had no children and wanted to sell the house. The Dalys ...

Russborough House’s sole security guard was in another wing of the house — and anyway, he is in his seventies and would never have been a match for the thieves. The nearest police station, 4 ...

Russborough House was opened to visitors but the art, inevitably, attracted the attention of criminals. Many of the paintings were stolen in a series of notorious robberies – among them one by ...

One of Ireland's best-known stately houses, threatened with closure last year, is to get an upgrade after securing half a million euro in funding, it has been announced.

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Russborough House has been the target of four major art heists, including a raid by the Irish Republican Army in 1974—in which 19 paintings, including works by Jan Vermeer, Rubens, Francisco de ...

Autumn scenes at Russborough House in Wicklow (Image: Collins). Ms Humphreys said: "This is the first time in a number of years, thanks to the improving economy, that my department has been in a ...