Myles Shevlin
Myles P. Shevlin was an Irish republican Dublin-based solicitor known as the Provisional [Irish Republican Army] "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 IRA [Army Council|Army Council]. With the outbreak of The Troubles 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, 1st Viscount Whitelaw|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.