The Northern Bank Job
The Heist and How They Got Away with It
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Product details:
- Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)
- Date of Publication 11 June 2026
- Number of Volumes Paperback
- ISBN 9781035917969
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages272 pages
- Size 196x128x20 mm
- Weight 220 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 10 b&w integrated images 700
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Short description:
The true story of one of the biggest bank heists in Irish and British history - and the questions that remain.
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The true story of one of the biggest bank heists in Irish and British history - and the questions that remain.
On a Sunday evening in December 2004, two young men were at home with their families. Both worked for the Northern Bank's cash centre in Belfast. They heard knocks on their front doors. Within minutes masked men invaded their homes, overpowered their loved ones and disabled their electronic devices. The two bank officials were given a choice: do what they were told or their families would die.
The following day, -26.5 million was stolen from the Northern Bank: the biggest cash heist in Irish and British history. The two bank officials simply re-labelled vast amounts of cash as rubbish and wheeled huge bags to a van waiting outside, yards from Belfast's City Hall. The robbers' knowledge of the inner workings of the bank was astonishing. They deployed a large crew of drivers, guards and gunmen.
Only one organisation had the ability to execute such an audacious, minutely-planned robbery: the Irish Republican Army. But the IRA was supposedly demobilised as a result of the Good Friday Peace Agreement signed six years earlier. The leaders of Sinn F-in (who were also leaders of the IRA) vehemently denied their involvement.
No-one believed them. Governments in London, Dublin and Washington were outraged. Yet no one has ever been convicted of any crime relating to the heist. Little more than two years later, Sinn F-in was in government in Northern Ireland.
In the wake of the twentieth anniversary of this bizarre robbery, Glenn Patterson builds on his popular BBC podcast to shed new light on the story of the infamous heist, the victims, the organisers and the abortive, at times comically inept, attempts to find the people who carried it out.
