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and one of the most outspoken opponents of unauthorised reprisals against the Irish civilian population by the British government. One of the main points Fisher expressed to Moylett was the necessity of Sinn FĂ©in to compromise on its demands for a free and united republic. His efforts were hindered
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and George Griffith. Indeed alongside Griffith Moylett was deeply involved with the founding of the People's National Party, an explicitly anti-Jewish Pro-Nazi party whose membership overlapped greatly with that of the Irish Friends of Germany. Moylett only left the People's National Party when in
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October 1939 he was expelled from the party and his position as treasurer on charges of embezzling party funds. In 1941 he continued to support these far-right groups when he aided Ó Cuinneagáin in setting up the Youth Ireland Association, a group gathered to fight
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In 1930 Moylett and his family moved to Dublin, and by 1940 his political activities in the city had become a concern for the Gardai. Moylett had begun moving in anti-semitic, pro-German far-right politic circles while in Dublin, engaging with the likes of
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and, in October 1920, he was selected to go to London as the personal envoy of Arthur Griffith. During the next several months, Moylett was involved in secret discussions with British government officials on the recognition of
118:. The Irish Overseas Trading Company, of which Moylett was one of two directors; acted as a front for the importation of armaments covered by consignments of trade goods. According to his subsequent detailed military 98:. Having founded and organised the recruitment and funding of the Mayo activities of the IRA he also acted as a justice of the Sinn FĂ©in courts. He was advised to leave the area due to death threats from the 64:
and his close association with Éamon de Valera had been in the direct pay of the Admiralty Naval Intelligence Service up till 1916 before becoming secretary to the Éamon de Valera led treaty discussions.
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Future King of England, sailing and holidaying in the Mayo/Donegal region at the time. Relocating to Dublin, the Irish overseas Trading Company was formed with a former director of
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and officials in the British government. He ran a business that was used as a front to import armaments for the cause and held that many of those that became closest associates of
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for five years before returning to Ireland in 1902. He opened a grocery and provisions business in Ballina and, as it proved successful, he later established branches in
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the Irish Army, the consignments were imported to a number of warehouses in the Dublin Docks with the three keyholders to the warehouses being Éamon de Valera,
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however, both to the slow and confused pace of the peace negotiations as well as the regularly occurring violence in Ireland, most especially the
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incident on 21 November 1920, which happened whilst he was in London speaking with members of the cabinet. During the
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and their burning down of his commercial premises in Ballina. On one occasion during that period, according to his
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to a farming family, Moylett emigrated to London as a young man working in various departments in
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and London between 1910 and 1914; the London-branch would be sold at the outbreak of the
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in the United States with Éamon de Valera, Moylett succeeded him as president of the
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and the organisation of a peace conference to end hostilities between both parties.
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during the civil war rift had at one time worked for the British. Particularly that
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Price, D. (2012). The Flame and the Candle: War in Mayo 1919–1924. Cork: Collins.
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and became an early advocate of the withholding of land annuities.
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and frequently travelled to London acting as a middleman between
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Blood Kindred: W. B. Yeats, the Life, the Death, the Politics
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He was assisted by John Steele, the London editor of the
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statements archived in the bureau of military history by
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www.bureauofmilitaryhistory.ie/reels/bmh/BMH.WS0767.pdf
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Index


Anglo-Irish war
Irish Republican Brotherhood
County Mayo
County Galway
Arthur Griffith
Sinn FĂ©in
Éamon de Valera
Erskine Childers
Asgard
Crossmolina
County Mayo
Harrods
Galway
First World War
Black and Tans
military statements
Prince George
ICI Chemicals & Explosives
Irish War of Independence
statements archived in the bureau of military history by
Michael Collins
Harry Boland
Irish Republican Brotherhood
Dáil Éireann
general amnesty
Irish Republican Army
Chicago Tribune
H. A. L. Fisher
Minister of Education

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