Myles P. Shevlin (died 1990) was an Irish republican
Dublin
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-based
solicitor
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known as the
Provisional Irish Republican Army
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(IRA) "legal adviser"' 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
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in the late 1960's Shevlin smuggled weapons to the IRA in the north.
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
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. The IRA representatives included
Gerry Adams,
Martin McGuinness,
Sean MacStiofain and
Dáithí Ó Conaill.
[Coogan, p.392]
Death
He died at his home in
Dublin
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in 1990.
References
External links
''Irish Emigrant'' newspaper
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Year of birth unknown
1990 deaths
20th-century Irish lawyers
Irish republicans
Lawyers from Dublin (city)
Lawyers from County Carlow