This Is a Robbery: The 4 Main Theories About Who Stole the Paintings at the Gardner Museum

If the Irish mob was involved, sympathizers of the Irish Republican Army probably used the pieces as collateral to buy weapons. During this time, Irish American gangsters provided arms for the IRA, most notoriously in the Valhalla case. In This Is a Robbery, former Scotland Yard investigator recalls a time where the IRA was trying to commission a Yates painting to raise money for arms. Former IRA press officer Richard O'Rawe dismisses this theory, however.