Myles Shevlin


Myles P. Shevlin was an Irish republican Dublin-based solicitor known as 'the Provisionals' "legal adviser"' Shevlin represented several individuals accused of IRA membership and/or activity.
During the IRA border campaign of the late 1950s, Shevlin was for a time the IRA Adjutant-General and a member of its Army Council.
On 20 June 1972, he attended and took notes at a meeting of IRA representatives with William Whitelaw, the British Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, in London. The representatives included Gerry Adams, Martin McGuinness and Dáithí Ó Conaill.

Death

He died at his home in Dublin in 1990.