A Brazen Theft: The Irish Crown Jewels
On July 8, 1907 one of the most shocking and brazen crimes in history was discovered. The Manchester Evening news reported, incredulously: "On the eve of the departure of the King and Queen on a state visit to Ireland comes the startling news that the Jewels of the Order of St Patrick, valued at 50,000 pounds, have been stolen.”
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I'm surprised that The History Guy didn't mention the possibility of pirates being involved. Don't all good stories include pirates? LOL
@TheHistoryGuyChannel
28 күн бұрын
Well, a newspaper did speculate that it was done by Americans bent on “plunder.”
@wolfgang757
28 күн бұрын
Good point but any damn fool knows it was the Templars. For certain.
@bethbartlett5692
28 күн бұрын
@@TheHistoryGuyChannel My History began in Chicago, Irish of County Kerry, Ireland lineage, and Irish of Basque Orgin. (The data indicates that Counties Kerry and Cork reflects the highest % of Basque DNA, having less influence of Germanic/Vikings, Romans, Anglos, Saxon, Normans, and Jutes, aggressions, due to location in SW Ireland. My degrees include Sociology/Behavioralism, Journalism, and History. I have found myself routinely returning to the subject of Ireland, and I overwhelmingly find myself noting the numbers of: 🔺 inaccuracies in the 20th Century to date, "Mainstream Academic" History "Stories". Having had intense education/focus on Research training, my Advisor having been Head of the Department in Sociology and given Sociologists are the "Worker Bee's" in Research, Statistics, Data Interpretation, and all matter of Studies (particularly those w/o the advantage of Lab based Sciences, requiring a greater effort of care in planning, administering, and conducting Studies to ensure to most valid outcomes.) Thus, intense training in Research Methodologies, and drilling in the "Standards of Science and Research" 🔑 These were further supplemented by "Training in the practice of the Higher Mind aka Mature Mind", (a practice that "Academics of old held as a Requirement" as the "Lower Mind, aka Ego Mind, aka Adolescent Mind" has no place in Academia, "Ethics". "🔺" 🔹 The Human Lower Mind is where all negative thought energies reside: ("fear and fear based thoughts, prejudices, judging and judgemental, jealousy, envy, accusations, pettiness, insecurities , preoccupation with what other's think, etc, the Lackings: lack of self worth, self esteem, self confidence, etc.") The Human"Higher Mind aka Mature Mind" is where all our Positive Thought Energies and Wisdom reside.🔑 Teaching the method of Maturing the Mind: Establishing a habit of being: "Conscious in Thought" + "Applying Higher Mind" ☀️🔑 Using "Discernment rather than Judgemental" 🔑 I came to realize that the Behaviors on a number of "Mainstream Academics" were defining those associated with the "Lower Mind", the criticisms, accusations, and judgemental application of labeling those with "alternative theories" or "findings that didn't support the Mainstream Stories", they would be judged, accused, ridiculed, and labeled as "Psuedoscience/Psuedoscientists" I realized these particular "Mainstream Academics/Archaeologists/Egyptologsts" were those most frequently found in the "Entertainment Documentaries" (those Produced for "Media Audience Numbers/Profits" rather than the focus being for greater Educational, Science, and Collaboratives that included experts from various fields that could offer greater insight and support to the Subject Profiled: Geology and Geophysics, Genetics, Linguists, Sociology, Architecture, Engineering, etc. It became apparent that these "Mainstream Academics/Archaeologists" were literally holding a "19th Century Theory based Paradigm and Linear Timeline as their foundation of fact". This was/is not a wise practice, nor is it in keeping with the "Standards of Science and Research", which prohibits using a Theory as Fact. In summary the "Standards of Science and Research" directs the Researcher to: "With Mind fully Open, free of any predetermined Beliefs, Theories, Opinions, ......... and allowing the Research Methodologies to extract the greater facts." The cornerstone of Academics is the "Freedom of Thoughts", free to imagine and consider possibilities, free to Explore, Evaluate, to Discover". Any interference with this comprises a most concerning situation, and the "Ethics" flag is raised. Perhaps the "Policing of Thought" would be a valuable subject for the body of Western Academics to thinking about ... I've noticed a number of instances where the "Mainstream Academics/Archaeologists" have: ignored Artifacts that don't fit into their "Paradigm", discarded, denied, and destroyed "artifacts", data, and even knowingly, consciously ignore "Peer Reviewed and Journal Published" Science Findings, that doesn't support their "Paradigm ". Done so without even the time to give the subject their attention to become familiar with the Studies, the facts, the Peer Discussions. Reacting rather than Responding. Accusing subjects, absent of any education on the subject, a behavior or "learned ideologies and habits", "taking another's perspective as Fact w/o any 1st hand study or research" (doesn't this remind us of another "Mainstream", ie: the 24hr Cable Mainstream News Medias" whom Foster the Public in Lower Minded Reactions for Profits and Power. Applying the "Psychology of Advertising to Commentary News Programs". "The hearsay vs the researched fact content." Perhaps in our expansion of available resources, we have allowed some overlooking of Values, and the Cornerstones of our predecessors have been allowed to fade, costing us the greater value of facts, cooperation, actual achievements, moving forward with Discoveries, and costing us "Ethical Values". The longer I spend with attention on the subjects with a History of Archaeologists having "created a story that fit their Paradigm, and repeating it so often that they deem it accurate" the more evident that the true "Psuedoscientists", the application of the defined meaning is actually the "Mainstream Academics", for when a Researcher follows the "Standards" and fulfills the exercise of preparing all the requirements for "Peer Review", and the data can be repeated with accurate outcomes ... They are absolutely Authentic in their work, Ethics, and Protocol. They are "Authentic Academics". ... and these "Authentic Academics" using data provided by Geneticists DNA studies, "are Validating what was deemed Myth by "Mainstream Academia", the Irish, Basque (origin, and with a direct line in DNA evidence to the Levant aka the Danites! ahhhhh ... What a beautiful History discovery. No wonder Ashland Jew showed up in my family's DNA. There are so many History subjects to be revealed through DNA! I have held this knowledge potential for several years and it is proving to be Now that it is unfolding! What a Delicious Time and Feelings for us "Mature Minded" + " Authentic Academics"! I just had to share this story with another whom I know will understand the value of it. Best Thoughts! Beth Bartlett Sociologist/Behavioralist and Historian W Tennessee, USA GO IRISH !!! ☘️ GO CUBS - GO !!!!!!!!! 🐾⚾🧢 pre edit
@bethbartlett5692
28 күн бұрын
@@TheHistoryGuyChannel (You're going to be surprised by this story) My History began in Chicago, Irish of County Kerry, Ireland lineage, and Irish of Basque Orgin. (The data indicates that Counties Kerry and Cork reflects the highest % of Basque DNA, having less influence of Germanic/Vikings, Romans, Anglos, Saxon, Normans, and Jutes, aggressions, due to location in SW Ireland. My degrees include Sociology/Behavioralism, Journalism, and History. I have found myself routinely returning to the subject of Ireland, and I overwhelmingly find myself noting the numbers of: 🔺 inaccuracies in the 20th Century to date, "Mainstream Academic" History "Stories". Having had intense education/focus on Research training, my Advisor having been Head of the Department in Sociology and given Sociologists are the "Worker Bee's" in Research, Statistics, Data Interpretation, and all matter of Studies (particularly those w/o the advantage of Lab based Sciences, requiring a greater effort of care in planning, administering, and conducting Studies to ensure to most valid outcomes.) Thus, intense training in Research Methodologies, and drilling in the "Standards of Science and Research" 🔑 These were further supplemented by "Training in the practice of the Higher Mind aka Mature Mind", (a practice that "Academics of old held as a Requirement" as the "Lower Mind, aka Ego Mind, aka Adolescent Mind" has no place in Academia, "Ethics". "🔺" 🔹 The Human Lower Mind is where all negative thought energies reside: ("fear and fear based thoughts, prejudices, judging and judgemental, jealousy, envy, accusations, pettiness, insecurities , preoccupation with what other's think, etc, the Lackings: lack of self worth, self esteem, self confidence, etc.") The Human"Higher Mind aka Mature Mind" is where all our Positive Thought Energies and Wisdom reside.🔑 Teaching the method of Maturing the Mind: Establishing a habit of being: "Conscious in Thought" + "Applying Higher Mind" ☀️🔑 Using "Discernment rather than Judgemental" 🔑 I came to realize that the Behaviors on a number of "Mainstream Academics" were defining those associated with the "Lower Mind", the criticisms, accusations, and judgemental application of labeling those with "alternative theories" or "findings that didn't support the Mainstream Stories", they would be judged, accused, ridiculed, and labeled as "Psuedoscience/Psuedoscientists" I realized these particular "Mainstream Academics/Archaeologists/Egyptologsts" were those most frequently found in the "Entertainment Documentaries" (those Produced for "Media Audience Numbers/Profits" rather than the focus being for greater Educational, Science, and Collaboratives that included experts from various fields that could offer greater insight and support to the Subject Profiled: Geology and Geophysics, Genetics, Linguists, Sociology, Architecture, Engineering, etc. It became apparent that these "Mainstream Academics/Archaeologists" were literally holding a "19th Century Theory based Paradigm and Linear Timeline as their foundation of fact". This was/is not a wise practice, nor is it in keeping with the "Standards of Science and Research", which prohibits using a Theory as Fact. In summary the "Standards of Science and Research" directs the Researcher to: "With Mind fully Open, free of any predetermined Beliefs, Theories, Opinions, ......... and allowing the Research Methodologies to extract the greater facts." The cornerstone of Academics is the "Freedom of Thoughts", free to imagine and consider possibilities, free to Explore, Evaluate, to Discover". Any interference with this comprises a most concerning situation, and the "Ethics" flag is raised. Perhaps the "Policing of Thought" would be a valuable subject for the body of Western Academics to thinking about ... I've noticed a number of instances where the "Mainstream Academics/Archaeologists" have: ignored Artifacts that don't fit into their "Paradigm", discarded, denied, and destroyed "artifacts", data, and even knowingly, consciously ignore "Peer Reviewed and Journal Published" Science Findings, that doesn't support their "Paradigm ". Done so without even the time to give the subject their attention to become familiar with the Studies, the facts, the Peer Discussions. Reacting rather than Responding. Accusing subjects, absent of any education on the subject, a behavior or "learned ideologies and habits", "taking another's perspective as Fact w/o any 1st hand study or research" (doesn't this remind us of another "Mainstream", ie: the 24hr Cable Mainstream News Medias" whom Foster the Public in Lower Minded Reactions for Profits and Power. Applying the "Psychology of Advertising to Commentary News Programs". "The hearsay vs the researched fact content." Perhaps in our expansion of available resources, we have allowed some overlooking of Values, and the Cornerstones of our predecessors have been allowed to fade, costing us the greater value of facts, cooperation, actual achievements, moving forward with Discoveries, and costing us "Ethical Values". The longer I spend with attention on the subjects with a History of Archaeologists having "created a story that fit their Paradigm, and repeating it so often that they deem it accurate" the more evident that the true "Psuedoscientists", the application of the defined meaning is actually the "Mainstream Academics", for when a Researcher follows the "Standards" and fulfills the exercise of preparing all the requirements for "Peer Review", and the data can be repeated with accurate outcomes ... They are absolutely Authentic in their work, Ethics, and Protocol. They are "Authentic Academics". ... and these "Authentic Academics" using data provided by Geneticists DNA studies, "are Validating what was deemed Myth by "Mainstream Academia", the Irish, Basque (origin, and with a direct line in DNA evidence to the Levant aka the Danites! ahhhhh ... What a beautiful History discovery. No wonder Ashland Jew showed up in my family's DNA. There are so many History subjects to be revealed through DNA! I have held this knowledge potential for several years and it is proving to be Now that it is unfolding! What a Delicious Time and Feelings for us "Mature Minded" + " Authentic Academics"! I just had to share this story with another whom I know will understand the value of it. Best Thoughts! Beth Bartlett Sociologist/Behavioralist and Historian W Tennessee, USA GO IRISH !!! ☘️ GO CUBS - GO !!!!!!!!! 🐾⚾🧢
@davidcampbell4465
28 күн бұрын
Well, don't look at me....I didn't take 'em !🤑
I am 70 years old and live in the UK and this is the first I have known of this, so it just goes to show that by watching your excellent videos, anybody can learn something new.
My mind reels at the brilliance of building a strong room without first making sure that the safe could be put in the room.
@TheHistoryGuyChannel
28 күн бұрын
I know!
@backwashjoe7864
28 күн бұрын
The strongest room is one that no one and nothing can get in or out of!
@orbyfan
28 күн бұрын
This sounds like a Bob Newhart telephone skit: "The jewels are in the most heavily-guarded area, right near police headquarters....They were stolen...You built a new strong room for the safe where the jewels were stored...The safe wouldn't fit through the door...did you try knocking the wall down? Oh, that's why they call it a strong room...Where is the safe? It's in the library...These are the people entrusted with the security of the country's most treasured possessions..."
@gotsloco1810
27 күн бұрын
I have not dealt with any UK government contracts but I have seen enough US Military contracts for capital equipment. The company I worked for had approved contract drawings showing our equipment requiring a 220 3 Phase Wye electrical service. As the facility was being finished they determined the electrical service was a Delta. The approval drawing was signed by a PE whose license was as an electrical engineer. That project had other problems. A 20,000lb capacity forklift the had a weight of 20,000 lbs. Remember it’s Government Money not real money.
@chadparsons50
23 күн бұрын
Not the first time this has happened.
I have to admit stolen art mysteries is one my favorite history subjects
While Arthur and his men were searching the countryside for the missing crown jewels, they came across a castle full of French-accented soldiers, who claimed that "they already have some!"
@cyrilusly
27 күн бұрын
Ah monty pyton! Reckon the the Vikings had removed such treasures centuries before!! Just another political religious excuse to maintain control unfortunately them days. Any wonder for a small Island they are known and celebrated all over the world. On 17th March for a Welch man, shepard that moved to France then brought catholisism back to Ireland ,drank Potíeen climbed a mountain barefoot and claimed to have found God.Some story ! The rest of the country whist toiling an rolling around in the mud needed such intervention an thus embraced it ! ...Then came the age of multi countries politicians to dilute it further ! Life an stories..😅 gotta love it!
@Davenportian
27 күн бұрын
Watch out -- they have a cowapult!
@Davenportian
27 күн бұрын
Excusez-moi -- I meant cow-tapult!
@capt.bart.roberts4975
13 күн бұрын
"Your father is a large aquatic mammal, and your mother smells of elderberries!"
My 8 year old daughter is now hooked on The History Guy! Between her and my self you can always hear Lance in my house
What a theft. The absolute nerve needed to pull that off.
@nedludd7622
28 күн бұрын
Maybe you mean, what theft?
@greggweber9967
28 күн бұрын
Professor Moriarty? LoL
@user-se5vr4pj8b
28 күн бұрын
@@greggweber9967 Sir Peter Blood
@jacobsauer922
28 күн бұрын
Definitely an inside job. Too clean, perfect media stories. Sway back and forth on who’s to blame, then poof 💨, something shiny. What jewels. 😆
@richarddietzen3137
26 күн бұрын
Aren’t those the crown jewels? No, it’s me lucky charms !
Seems most likely that the jewels were never returned to the safe after that last use because between that point and the finding that they were missing, the safe was never inspected.
First place I'd check would be the British Museum .
@tonyharpur8383
22 күн бұрын
And they have lost quite a few items, too! 😅
@fangslaughter1198
18 күн бұрын
Dead on!
Why is the Pink Panther Theme playing in my head?
@jeepien
25 күн бұрын
Tinnitus?
@tonyharpur8383
22 күн бұрын
😂😅
@comettamer
22 күн бұрын
Because that's kiiiinda what this was like.
A good cup of coffee, a cigarette, and THG. 😎
@roberthevern6169
28 күн бұрын
Right there with ya....cough!
@JamesMorgan-ne8qu
25 күн бұрын
An Irish coffee!
Jewels regularly pawned by a senior official sounds the most likely. I can picture the person short of money and pawning them, each time recovering them but that one time they just can’t get the money together. A pawnbroker who took them wouldn’t want to shout about it so breaks them up, melts the metal and no one ever sees the whole pieces again.
Fascinating, thank you for another great episode!
Sounds like a good maguffin for a spin-off National Treasure movie!
Dublin Castle is still used as Irish Government offices. Area open to the public. Last there around 30 years ago.
Rather amusing how pointless the strong room ended up being.
I think you should have mentioned the "Shackleton Injunction" that prevented the mention of their name being used in any publication, or report, discussing this particular theft. Reporting restrictions were only lifted fairly recently !
It was a pleasent suprise to here the local paper reffered to here, the Stoke Sentinel which is still in print today .
I bet ya the guy chuckled at that motto as he was crudely prying out all those jewels
@roberthevern6169
28 күн бұрын
We think alike!
LOVE the green bow tie!!!
Like the recent focus on historical thefts
@Redmenace96
27 күн бұрын
I love heist stories. Especially unsolved!
I appreciate you and thank you for making content.
"Jesus Christ Marie! They're Minerals!" -- Hank Schrader
@roberthevern6169
28 күн бұрын
Nice call back to Messrs Cranston and Paul! Mr Paul grew up in my area, Boise, Id!! Not sure about Watley the dentist who took a pull on the nitrous just before commencing work on patient, Jerry!
good morning THG.
I remember a mate being questioned in court back in the early seventies. He was asked by the judge whether he was, "in fact, a practising homosexual?" He answered, "Very practiced, your honour!"
AS ALWAYS, MR. LANCE, ANOTHER EXCELLENT VIDEO!!😊😊😊😊
I wonder if The Doctor was involved.
Interesting, thank you!
Such things never truly disappear nor is there any chance they get broken up. Those jewels are safely put away on some country estate.
@johncox2865
27 күн бұрын
I agree. They are worth fat more as Crown Jewels than as simply “jewels”. For one thing, as long as they are “alive”, they can be held hostage.
@Redmenace96
27 күн бұрын
Strong language with, "no chance", but I get your point. Even if they were taken by one of the insiders, they may have panicked and decided money was more important than honour/principle. Maybe a 5% chance they were broken up for money and also destroy evidence. 95% chance they are hidden somewhere.
@scythelord
27 күн бұрын
Nah. While more valuable assembled, they could never be sold. the individual gems could easily though. It is doubtless it was broken up and sold off. No matter how valuable something could be, if you can't sell it, it has no real value.
Thank you History Guy
Our upper classes are always banging on about how tasteful they are, then you get to see all the tom foolery, pour diamonds on it!
Watching from Mackinac Island Michigan
THANK YOU
I wonder was it an inside job . NO ,a loyal British citizen would NEVER steal irish gold . Would they ?
Love your videos
Today would have been Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's 165th birthday. Sherlock Holmes was in retirement in 1907, keeping bees on the Sussex downs; he handled The Adventure of the Lion's Mane that year, which didn't require him to travel. If he was asked to help investigate the case of the Irish crown jewels, he must have turned down the request, or was unsuccessful, and Dr. Watson regarded it as prudent not to mention the great detective's involvement.
Good Wednesday morning History Guy and everyone watching...Class is back in session...@Lance, what's the black spot on your upper right lip??
@jasonralph4286
28 күн бұрын
Hmm? A bit of distraction for a moment. Evidence of a too close shave?🤔
@roberthevern6169
28 күн бұрын
Glad I wasn't the only one who noticed that! You can't 'unsee' such things....
@creid7537
28 күн бұрын
History booger
@dugroz
27 күн бұрын
I wondered that too! Looks like dried blood from a shaving nick.
The story behind the safe and the strong room doesn't surprise me one little bit. In the mid 1990s, I spent some time working on a project at a European bank in Tokyo. The bank, regulated by the Ministry of Finance (the MOF), was required to compile and store various hard-copy regulatory reports for a set period of time, newer reports replacing older ones as time went on. The requirements specified that the reports had to be kept in a fireproof, lockable safe in a room away from normal operations. The problem was, that as time went on, the physical size of the reports got bigger and bigger, but the safe wasn't expandable, and so, in order to satisfy the requirements, the staff at the bank pushed and shoved the reports into the fireproof, lockable safe, but just left the door ajar because they couldn't close it owing to the reports spilling out.
Well well well what a big deal all of that must have been and i guess still is....Thank THG🎀
Wild Flowers, Tales so fitting!!
Love today's themed bow tie.
The little people no doubt.
I believe the pronunciation of “O’Mahoney” is actually more like “O’Manny.”
Good morning! 👋🏽😊
What’s that black spot above your lip?
@franzenders344
28 күн бұрын
I was wondering too. It wasn't on his ending video. I felt like Austin Powers saying "mole"...
@chrissherer2047
27 күн бұрын
I thought it was a "play button" but when I clicked, it only halted the video.
@dugroz
27 күн бұрын
"We all see it .... we ALL see it ..."
@johnwilson1094
18 күн бұрын
What hump- err, black spot?
The British Crown had a lot of enemies in Ireland in 1907. The Irish rebels, later known as the IRA, had infiltrated the police and all departments of government in Ireland. It thus would not have been all that difficult for the Irish nationalist underground to have made use of a civil servant or police officer who was secretly, and unknown to his superiors in the British-led government of Ireland a nationalist agent to have stolen the jewels, and used them to finance revolutionary activites.
I hope the jewels are still intact, more exciting to think of them somewhere on a beautiful woman. Thanks
Again, a highly interesting event previously unknown to me. Real history as good as any novel. Now that Ireland is independent, could these jewels appear again... perhaps as silently and mysteriously as they disappeared? Now there is a fun concept for a novel. Thanks again, THG.
Love the green bowtie homage!
It was not a "State" Visit. Back then, as you said, all of the island of Ireland was part of the United Kingdom. It was no more a State Visit than it would have been if Edward VII travelled from London to Scotland or Wales.
Someone’s gambling debt.
@roberthevern6169
28 күн бұрын
In hushed tones, 'ehh, I know a guy, that can help wit dat!
Love the TARDIS and Dalek on your shelf!!
@flintdavis2
28 күн бұрын
I like the Robot from “Lost in space “
Mr. Lance, did you get the mug of the masked man from the set of the movie 12 O'CLOCK HIGH? The same mug was used as a part of the story.❤❤❤😮😮😮
Hey History Guy! I asked some time ago, but I would be interested to see a video about the only US Vice President to write the music for a #1 Billboard song.
@frankdodgee
28 күн бұрын
? I’m interested
@wolfgang757
28 күн бұрын
Charles Dawes. But it is not so simple as that, the hit was a cover almost fifty years later. Now who is the only US President to hit a hole-in-one? It was not Ike.
Thank you for the lesson.
My precious.
It would be nice to have a panel to discussion. On what could have to have improve and PREPARE, for the D-day landing. Stupidity took a lot of life. Passing the buck and getting the men not getting ready.
I want one of those hats they're wearing!
Were those jewels pink hearts, yellow moons, green clovers, blue diamonds, and purple horseshoes? I think I have a suspect.
@KevinWindsor1971
28 күн бұрын
kzread.info/dash/bejne/d6Bo1qqJZavKgKQ.html
@KomradeMikhail
28 күн бұрын
1971 ??... You should have Orange Stars, but not yet Purple Horseshoes.
@roberthevern6169
28 күн бұрын
@KomradeMikhail here in 'merica we get what WE want, not what the party gives us!
@TheHistoryGuyChannel
19 күн бұрын
There were actually green clovers. The diamonds were white, not blue. And yes, quite possibly they were taken simply because they represented a pot of gold for the thief.
So that's what bought all the arms for The Easter Uprising!
Interesting
It would take nerves of Irish steel to pull this heist off
@roberthevern6169
28 күн бұрын
I wonder if this wasn't a contributing factor in the subsequent hostilities between these island nations?!
@PhredMacmurray
28 күн бұрын
Maybe they were drunk
Hmmmm! Black Thorne perhaps? Don't rule out The Illuminate!😮
It was possibly the same group that about 100 years later nicked the Portuguese Crown Jewels from a museum in The Hague, as they'd arrived there on loan. 😆
My great uncle was a very naughty boy, about that time. His first hiest? An entire lighter(unpowered barge) full of tea. He needed the money because Great Aunt had cervical cancer, and required a very expensive operation. After that, he was the guy who invented the classic "car ringing" gang. I miss the crazy old sod.
There had to be privateers involved somewhere in all this.
I just saw thevtitleband thought I never knew someone tried to steal Ireland's potatoes. 😳
Summer of 1907 also marked a turning point in the shipping world 🌎🌍, Lusitania was about to make her maiden voyage and her sister ship ⚓🚢 Mauritania would follow after and the idea 💡 for the Olympic class of ships was proposed by Bruce Ismay and William Pierre ( who was a viceroce for Ireland)! 16:09
Things that make you say whom.
Sometimes, crime actually does pay.
I'd be interested in the financial situations of everyone involved leading up to and well after the theft. Even if the primary motive had been political, no one would have just chucked them into the sea, considering their emense monetary value. Surely, they would have been broken up and fenced off piecemeal over time.
@dwarvenaled
20 күн бұрын
It were the one armed midget.
@TheHistoryGuyChannel
19 күн бұрын
That is the primary reason that Shackleton was suspected. He was a man frequently in need of money.
Very fishy! Someone in the know was behind the theft.
Has this happened in the time of Cromwell, it might have been one of my Bryan(t) ancestors when Cromwell banished them to the Colonies...but the jewels existed for 250 years after his banishment.
I told Ya - don't kiss the cat !
@roberthevern6169
28 күн бұрын
You don't want to know where that tongue has been!! Eeeww!!!
What year did the snakes 🐍 come up missing?
What other things were lost and never recovered?
@JTA1961
27 күн бұрын
Irish I knew
@dugroz
27 күн бұрын
There is a private museum in Boston (I think) that had a robbery in the 80's or 90's, and those items have never been recovered. Someone can help me with the details
Beauty contests are becoming a popular way to promote things. For instance, the winner of the Trigonometry Club's beauty pageant was crowned.... Miss Calculation. Tour Leader pageant winner... Miss Guided Encyclopedia Brittanica pageant winner... Miss Information
@flintdavis2
28 күн бұрын
Ha
@roberthevern6169
28 күн бұрын
@@flintdavis2Ha ha!
The story in Dublin is that the jewels were buried in the Dublin/Wicklow mountains with the intention of being recovered. And that they were stolen by Republicans. My guess is they were broken up (easier to transport), or if they were hidden they were buried somewhere like Phoenix park, where they could be watched without raising suspicion (and if recovered by police the presence of the viceroy's residence and several army barracks would make it extremely embarrassing.)
The start of rainy season at the mango farm. good evening
One of Danny Oceans ancestors.
@jamesfracasse8178
28 күн бұрын
Who? 13:04
"They're always after me lucky charms." - Keeper of The Irish Crown Jewels
Next video of please : U-S-S Liberty
@jamesricker3997
28 күн бұрын
Let me guess,you're Iranian.
@cranberryeater7459
28 күн бұрын
@@jamesricker3997 nope. American. I honor our soldiers.
@stephenchappell7512
16 күн бұрын
@@jamesricker3997 Let me guess Your loyalties lie elsewhere
9 minutes in and I am guessing that Vickers got canned (or maybe even caned, then canned) afterwards. Interested to see how this one turns out.
@rydplrs71
28 күн бұрын
Sacked is the British term.
@Johnpalmer-eq7yq
28 күн бұрын
Dude. History. Guy. Are they paying I paid. The history. Guy. I met. Well worth the money. Computer lab I'm worried about
They should have put Inspector Harry “Snapper” Organs on the case.
No lock will keep out a determined thief... A month to make a getaway in a time when travel was measured in weeks...
The English royals have them and they laugh about it 😂
Frankly, I’m disappointed to learn that the Irish Crown Jewels aren’t just a wreath of four-leaf clovers woven by the fairies for the leprechaun princess.
WTAFF has The Kaiser got to do with it?
History guy,theres only one explanation that makes common sense.A police officer that had acess stole them,for someone else,and had a nice payday.
Pirates? One thing is certain, no part if them came my way.
Ireland is cool.
How could it ever be reasonable to leave the crown jewels 'outside' of a strongroom? Whoever okayed that phenomenally stupid idea should've been fired for such an asinine concept. The door of the strongroom is too 'small'? Hire a carpenter to create a set of secure doors, frikin' genius! Protected by a single lock and key, that reflects contemptuous disregard. Only someone with intimate knowledge of where the jewels were kept could've performed the crime, given the lack of evidence.
@TheHistoryGuyChannel
18 күн бұрын
Yes, the story is a study in complacency and poor decision making.
@JonBrown-po7he
18 күн бұрын
@TheHistoryGuyChannel Agreed, sir. Yet being partly descendant of the Irish and a vet, I've a bit of baggage with the 'Limeys'.
No burglers, no teefs. It was an inside job. I find it strange that if they couldn't publicly prosecute and secure them.... they had no power to privately/discreetly secure their return? Take 3 of the biggest suspects into a basement and go to work with pliers and a blow torch. Gentlemen didn't do that sort of thing?
Dam KZread has gone back to that lame screen format again. Dam you KZread , dam you .
How has this not been made into a movie? Please tell me has...
Ah yes, the proverbial "inside job," better yet, the jewels just never really existed in the first place !! 🤣 Either way, a great mystery 😎
Argh! LEV-tenant!
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Ha! Lord Aberdeen knows!
I love this podcast! However, European royalty concerns me the least of any of the topics that are covered. 1:44