Patrick Moylett

Who was Patrick Moylett?

Patrick Moylett was a 20th-century Irish nationalist who, during the initial armistice negotiations to end the Irish War of Independence, briefly served as president of the Irish Republican Brotherhood during late-1920. A successful businessman in County Mayo and County Galway, he was a close associate of Arthur Griffith and frequently travelled to London acting as a middleman between Sinn Féin 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 may of those that became closest to Éamon de Valera during the rift had at one time worked for the British. Particularly that Erskine Childers despite his involvement in the Asguard fiasco 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 treaty discussions.