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
He died at his home in Dublin in 1990.
References
- ↑ Confirmation of Shevlin's death Template:Webarchive
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- ↑ Coogan, p.392