He was assisted by John Steele , the London editor of the '' Chicago Tribune '' , who helped him contact high-level members of the British Foreign Office . One of these officials , in particular C.J. Phillps , had frequent meetings with him . These meetings were later attended by H. A. L. Fisher , the Minister of Education 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 Féin to compromise on its demands for a free and united republic . His efforts were hindered however , both to the slow and confused pace of the peace negotiations as well as the regularly occurring violence in Ireland , most especially the Bloody Sunday incident on 21 November 1920 , which happened whilst he was in London speaking with members of the cabinet . During the Irish Civil War , although a supporter of the Anglo-Irish Treaty , he chose not to participate in the Free State government party which he viewed as an amalgam of Unionists and the old Irish Party . In 1926 he a founding member of the Clann Éireann Party and became an early advocate of the withholding of land annuities . 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-antisemitic , Pro German far-right politic circles while in Dublin , engaging with the likes of Gearóid Ó Cuinneagáin 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 October of 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 '' " a campaign against the Jews and Freemasons , also against all cosmopolitan agenda " '' . When the group was found to be stealing guns from army reservists the Gardai had enough and shut the group down in September 1942
Bloody Sunday
Bloody Sunday (1920)
Patrick Moylett