Within the early 1900s, Sir Arthur Vickers retains the magnificent Irish Crown Jewels secure beneath lock and key at Dublin Fortress. When the jewels disappear, the King rages, the police examine, and even Sir Arthur Conan Doyle will get concerned. Nobody is ever charged and no jewels are ever recovered. Besides, we now have an excellent thought of who took them, and why the reality has stayed buried.
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Additional Studying
This episode relied on three books concerning the Irish Crown Jewels affair. The basic account, from 1965, is Vicious Circle: The Case of the Lacking Irish Crown Jewels by Francis Bamford and Viola Bankes. Extra just lately, contrasting theories on the case are offered in The stealing of the Irish Crown Jewels: an unsolved crime, by Myles Dungan, and Scandal and Betrayal: Shackleton and the Irish crown jewels, John Cafferky and Kevin Hannafin. Brian Lacey’s e book, Horrible Queer Creatures: Homosexuality in Irish Historical past, offered further context.
Ari Adut launched his idea of scandal in an American Journal of Sociology paper from 2005, A Principle of Scandal: Victorians, Homosexuality, and the Fall of Oscar Wilde, and expanded it in e book kind in On Scandal: Ethical Disturbances in Society, Politics, and Artwork.
