Myles Shevlin
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Myles P. Shevlin (died 1990) was an Irish republican Dublin-based solicitor known as the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) "legal adviser"'[1] Shevlin represented several individuals accused of IRA membership and/or activity. During the IRA border campaign ("Operation Harvest") of the late 1950s, Shevlin was for a time the IRA Adjutant-General and a member of its Army Council. With the outbreak of The Troubles in the late 1960's Shevlin smuggled weapons to the IRA in the north.[2]
On 20 June 1972, he attended and acted as secretary at a meeting of IRA representatives with William Whitelaw, the British Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, in London. The IRA representatives included Gerry Adams, Martin McGuinness, Sean MacStiofain and Dáithí Ó Conaill.[3]
Death
[edit]He died at his home in Dublin in 1990.
References
[edit]- ^ Confirmation of Shevlin's death Archived 2006-04-18 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Coogan, Tim (2002). The IRA. New York: St. Martins Press. p. 367. ISBN 0-312-29416-6.
- ^ Coogan, p.392