Maurice Moynihan

Maurice Moynihan

Maurice Gerard Moynihan (December 1902 – 21 August 1999) was a senior Irish civil servant, co-drafter of the 1937 Constitution of Ireland, Secretary of the Government of the Irish Free State in 1937, Governor of the Central Bank of Ireland in 1960, and Knight Commander of the Papal Order of St. Gregory the Great in 1959.

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